Word: leprosaria
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...Work in 71 missions, 6,640 mission stations, some 4,000 schools, 350 hospitals and 16 leprosaria...
...every seven Roman Catholic missionaries throughout the world is a Jesuit. They labor in 71 missions, 6,640 mission stations, 4,000 schools, 350 hospitals and 16 leprosaria. Second to missions the Jesuits emphasize education, then retreats; there are 174 Jesuit retreat houses (32 in the U.S.). It is the largest order in the church today. Today there are more than 32,000 Jesuits-16,521 priests, 10,741 scholastics (students in the 13-year course leading to the priesthood) and 5,637 lay brothers-and they work in 74 nations...
...Paulo Red Cross worker recently investigated the leprosaria, substantiated many of the chronic complaints, and caused the firing of leprosarium director Dr. Sales Gomes. Likely result of the new hubbub: the sacking of his successor, Dr. Nelson de Campos...
Lepers were on the loose in Rio. Slipping out of a Sࣀ Paulo asylum and eluding spotters, at least a dozen of them entered the capital, mingled in cinema crowds, sipped coffee at sidewalk cafes. They told horrifying stories of life in the leprosaria: the guards were brutal, the food inedible, medical care nonexistent...
...There are two ways of looking at the U. S.: as 48 States, in all of which together there is only one leprosarium; as a nation, which is much better off because Hawaii has two leprosaria; the Canal Zone, one; the Philippine Islands, three; Puerto Rico, one. TIME might well have taken the more embracing view...