Word: leprosariums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view with no little alarm your Feb. 26 issue which states that the "only leprosarium in the U. S." is in Louisiana...
Beaten to publication by one week was your interesting Feb. 26 article concerning the Carville, La. leprosarium. Closely paralleling it was an article in Collier's by Dr. Victor G. Heiser, in which he differed with yours on one highly significant point...
Carvilte. Only leprosarium in the U. S., Carville has sheltered 1,200 patients since the first inmates were carried to its damp slave huts one dark night in 1894. Today, patients live in 45 wooden houses arranged around a quadrangle and linked by roofed plank platforms. These cottages, soon to be torn down, will be replaced by two-story fireproof houses. Last week construction workers started on a recreation building. For the rebuilding of Carville, the U. S. Public Health Service last year appropriated...