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This was a photograph that depicted the Catholic chapel on the grounds of the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium, where seventy-five percent of
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This was a photograph that depicted the Catholic chapel on the grounds of the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium, where seventy-five percent of the Carville patients were Catholics. Mass was held every morning, and twice on Sundays. "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."
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CDC/ Elizabeth Schexnyder, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Curator
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November 17, 2012