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At the time of this historic photograph, this building acted as the home for the five resident doctors on the Carville, Louisiana Leprosariu
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At the time of this historic photograph, this building acted as the home for the five resident doctors on the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium's staff."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."Today, the National Hansen's Disease Museum stands as a monument to those who battled Hansen's Disease (leprosy)--researchers and health care professionals, as well as those who suffered from the affliction.
Creator:
CDC/ Elizabeth Schexnyder, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Curator
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November 17, 2012