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Last week, Lieut, (j.g.) McNeilly was at the U.S. Marine Hospital at Carville, La., boning up on the most modern sulfone treatment for what victims prefer to call Hansen's disease (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). Next he will spend a month at Hawaii's leprosarium on Molokai Island. On May 1 he will go to Tinian with his wife, who is a registered nurse, and their two small daughters...
...leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive huts or roofless stone buildings; they died without medical care in an empty room furnished only by their waiting coffins. In his 16 years of heroic service on Molokai, which ended with his death from leprosy in 1889, Father Damien made many improvements, including a water system built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors...
...Molokai, Hawaii...
From Platinum to Molokai. For the next five years, with "That Girl" by his side (small, pert, blond Geraldine Siebolds Pyle was a Government girl when he married her in 1925), Columnist Pyle roved the highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber...
Unlike Father Damien, who contracted the disease during his work at Molokai and eventually died of it, Mary Reed's leprosy disappeared after nine years, leaving her with few of the deformities or mutilations common in "burned-out" cases. Mary Reed believes her faith cured her. So do friends who had prayed for her on three continents. Now 86 and almost blind, she still teaches and preaches at Chandag...