Title:
This photograph depicted the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's Administration Building, where all new patients that had entered the facility
Description:
This photograph depicted the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's Administration Building, where all new patients that had entered the facility were compelled to surrender their baggage for an inspection. Guns, knives, and weapons in general were not permitted on the facility grounds."Patients of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Carville, Louisiana, produced a set of 35 mm slides around 1950 from which this image was derived. 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 27, 2012