Word: leprosariums
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...rites of tolling bells and lowered flags. Theaters and sports arenas closed down on individual impulse. With the news of Kennedy's death, a Viennese ice show halted in mid-performance; in Belgium, a six-day bicycle race was interrupted; in distant Nepal, the ceremonial opening of a leprosarium was postponed...
...Easter Island," by John Ferno: Documentary in form, the film shifted back and forth from panoramic vistas of the island's famous statues to detailed close-ups of the missing eyes, ears, noses and hands of inmates in a leprosarium...
...BURNT-OUT CASE, by Graham Greene. A world-renowned architect, who has arrived at the feeling that fame and the love of many women are not sufficient to warm his cooling soul, finds the touch of life again among the inhabitants of an African leprosarium...
...novel does not center on the disease, you have deliberately and, in my estimation, shamefully exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this case an African leprosarium. The author's attitude toward the leprosy patient is respectful, in contrast to the thoughtless attitude of your reviewer...
...Public Health Service's Dr. Leroy E. Burney visited Kalaupapa last year to see whether the 95-year-old leprosy colony should be amalgamated with the only continental U.S. leprosarium, in Carville, La. Burney's conclusion: both should continue, for the time being. But Kalaupapa's life, at least as a leprosy settlement, appears limited. Hawaii has reported only 16 new cases of leprosy thus far this year (as compared to 94 in 1920), and less than half required hospitalization. Says Dr. Ira D. Hirschy. director of Hawaii's leprosy program: "As soon as the medical...