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Depicted in this historic image, was a cottage that was used as a dwelling for a married couple. There were twenty-four such cottages locate
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Depicted in this historic image, was a cottage that was used as a dwelling for a married couple. There were twenty-four such cottages located on the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium colony's acreage. The hospital was a self-contained compound with its own power plant, storehouse, patient treatment centers, which included a dental office, food-processing facilities, i.e., a cafeteria, and its own cemetery.Because of the sequestration of the leprosarium's patients, sometimes for many years, those that were married were provided such dwelling places in order to maintain some semblance of a normal married life style.
Creator:
CDC/ Elizabeth Schexnyder, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Curator
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December 2, 2012