Word: leprosariums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lepers, who are still, in effect, belled over all the earth, Christmas 1946 had special meaning. At the only U.S. leprosarium, in Carville, La., the 378 patients (whites, Negroes, Orientals) raised their first community Christmas tree. Major Hans G. Hornbostel, whose wife entered six months ago, played Santa Claus. In Washington, leprologists, gathered at a special conference, made the celebration official. They were ready to announce the first real hope of a leprosy cure...
...leprosarium authorities, leper leader Maung Kyaw Thu laid down demands to be met "immediately": 1) improve the wretched diet; 2) reduce working hours of inmates (now six hours daily); 3) step up injection treatments of chaulmoogra oil to the prewar level...
Last week their fears had been confirmed. Mrs. Hornbostel was confined in San Francisco Hospital, a victim of leprosy, and scheduled to be isolated at the National Leprosarium, Carville...
Last week a tiny ray of hope came from the National Leprosarium at Carville, La. which has been trying out Promin, one of the first sulfa drugs used against tuberculosis (the germs of the two diseases are much alike). In three years 32,000 daily injections were given to 137 leper volunteers. Result: 58% improved. In 10% of those treated over a year, leprosy bacteria disappeared; in another 30%, bacteria were reduced in number. (The tendency among untreated lepers is for bacteria to increase...
Those who were dosed the longest and could stand the largest doses improved the most. (One trouble with Promin: treatment sometimes has to stop because it causes anemia.) Only two patients got worse in spite of treatment, and their cases were very advanced. The Leprosarium doctors think improvement under Promin is "definite." The next step is to try out the newer, better TB drugs-diasone and streptomycin...