Word: leprosariums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon is big in the Pacific at 5 a.m., and it shines through the window of a lonely, olive-drab Quonset hut. On the rocky, typhoon-tossed island of Culion, a leprosarium 200 miles southwest of Manila, Bachelor Harold Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will...
...first saw the Culion leprosy victims during World War II when he was a coast guardsman stationed at Talampulan, 22 miles away. Determined to help them, he used his G.I. Bill to earn a degree in agriculture, took missionary studies at two seminaries, orientation courses at the Carville, La. leprosarium. From Lutheran groups in Missouri he got an appointment to Culion, sailed for the Philippines with a jeep, a garden tractor and a plow...
Died. Major Hans George Hornbostel, 76, veteran of both World Wars, survivor of the Bataan Death March who in 1946, although denied official permission to join his wife Gertrude at the national leprosarium at Carville, La., lived in a cottage on the hospital grounds until she was cured (TIME. Sept. 26, 1949), then joined her in a campaign of education about Hansen's disease; of a heart ailment; in New York City...
Long-dreaded leprosy is rated by top experts a hundred times less contagious than TB, and it is virtually impossible for an adult to be infected by casual contact. On these facts, the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La.-the national leprosarium-based its extraordinary system of allowing patients to lead near-normal lives. Under Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen, who spent 29 years there, Carville helped a whole generation of leprosy patients to feel (psychologically, at least) like normal human beings. "Dr. Jo" let patients marry and live together, encouraged outsiders (provided they were over twelve) to come...
...shore. Two wealthy Japanese Christians donated money to build a central hall and two dormitories. A new colony, called Airaku-en (Garden of the Haven of Love) was started, and Aoki became its manager. The following year the Japanese government decided to use Aoki's site for its leprosarium, built a hospital and several other buildings. The colony's population jumped from 42 to 242, and some blamed Aoki for the government's brutally efficient gathering process. "I could stand the stonings and beatings and having my house burned down, because I had faith in my work...