Title:
In this historic image, one of the corridors outside the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's infirmary was highlighted. The facility featured
Description:
In this historic image, one of the corridors outside the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's infirmary was highlighted. The facility featured approximately two and a half miles of these corridors, located on two floors. Like the bicyclist seen in this photograph, those patients who owned bicycles rode their bikes from their rooms to the infirmary, and back again."Patients of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Carville, Louisiana, produced this set of 35 mm slides around 1950. In 2002, a patient's son donated the set, the only one known in existence, to the museum. The father, a patient at Carville for several years, brought these slides home around 1950 to give his family a snapshot of life at the national leprosarium. The act of quarantining patients for leprosy (HD) remained law in the state of Louisiana until 1957."
Creator:
CDC/ Elizabeth Schexnyder, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Curator
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November 17, 2012