Word: leprosarium
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...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...
Four million lepers exist in the world. One million are in India. The U. S. has a leprosarium at Carville, La. At Culion, Philippine Islands, is another, and at Molokai, Hawaii, a third. In memory of the late General Leonard Wood, his friends are soliciting $2,000,000 for a leprosy hospital and clinic at Culion. They have a little more than half the needed money; are prodding the country for the rest...