Word: leprosariums
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...Orleans, a State health officer received a letter from Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, offering to provide a glass cage in which to incarcerate George Beaurepaire, Negro inmate of the National Leprosarium at Carville, La., while he was being tried in Criminal Court for murder...
John R. Early, leper, famous for 15 years for his vicissitudes in and out of confinement, broke quarantine for the fourth time, escaping from the Federal leprosarium at Carville, La. For three weeks he visited friends in the South and Middle West, then returned to his old home at Washington and surrendered to the District health authorities. The case of Early is a living tragedy, for he has been the subject of hot dispute among specialists, and has frequently been championed by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. His disease has not progressed, apparently...