Word: leprosarium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research worker in leprosy in Calcutta's School of Tropical Medicine. At present he is Medical Secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association. In the U. S., Dr. Muir addressed the American Society of Tropical Medicine during a convention in Baltimore, inspected the U. S. leprosarium at Carville, La. (356 inmates), looked over the researches in leprosy problems being conducted at Vanderbilt, George Washington. Western Reserve, Rochester and Harvard universities. Everywhere he found encouraging things...
...territorial leprosarium, commonly called "Kalaupapa," which cares for some 500 lepers, is located on a relatively small peninsula jutting off the windward coast of Molokai...
...Cortes' 473 members. As usual, the election aftermath was turbulent. A "state of alarm" was declared when elated Leftists rioted in principal cities, stormed jails in attempts to release 30,000 of their comrades jailed in 1934. Exuberantly in Alicante they turned loose the inmates of the local leprosarium...
...Government's leprosarium at Carville, La., went American Legion National Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. to address the 28 leprous members of the Legion's Carville Post...
...cases the past ten years. Centres of spread: Pacific Coast (Orientals), Gulf Coast (natives). The Great Lakes provided a few cases, mainly Scandinavians. U. S. leprosarium is at Carville, La., 336 inmates last week...