Title:
This historic image depicted the outside of the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's staff dining room, which served approximately 400 personne
Description:
This historic image depicted the outside of the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's staff dining room, which served approximately 400 personnel one meal per day. Included in this roster were doctors and nurses visiting the facility."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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Date Added:
November 27, 2012