I read “A Sanctuary of Outcasts” by Neil White. I found the Carville institution so interesting and I am so saddened by the injustice that was done to the patients there. I can’t wait to read this book.
Thank you for telling this story. 1/2 way thru the book now. These people were horrendously rejected by their families etc. I’m glad the CURE has been found. Thanks again!
Excellent presentation. Thank you so much. I am currently writing an article about leprosy in Norway in the 19th century when Norway had the highest incidence of the disease in all of Western Europe. Would like to have heard more about Dr. Hansen and the Norwegian model to stop contagion through isolation, which was the only way to stop the spread of leprosy before drugs were formulated. The Norwegian model is still in use worldwide in 2022. Regarding loss of rights: Billions of people all over the world were denied their human rights when government enforced isolation during COVID-19. Many families were unable to visit aged parents in care centers, or their beloved in the hospital. While leprosy may be mildly contagious, it is a disfiguring disease with devastating physical, social, and emotional consequences. While COVID is highly contagious, for the vast majority of people the symptoms are mild and not life threatening. In either case, governments made the decision to force people into isolation. Leprosariums were used not only to protect the public from the leper but also to protect the leper from the public. Leper is a legitimate word based on the name of the bacteria that causes it.
Home? They were denied the right to vote! Like prisoners who had actually committed crimes. They were denied the right to get married! It wasn't a home, it was a prison with a ten foot fence topped by barbed wire and 24 hour guards. "Home"...pffft. It was a prison-hospital.
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As a teenager, I remember driving past the Leprosy hospital in Carville, Louisiana
It gave me Chills.
I read “A Sanctuary of Outcasts” by Neil White. I found the Carville institution so interesting and I am so saddened by the injustice that was done to the patients there. I can’t wait to read this book.
Thank you for telling this story. 1/2 way thru the book now. These people were horrendously rejected by their families etc. I’m glad the CURE has been found.
Thanks again!
Excellent presentation. Thank you so much. I am currently writing an article about leprosy in Norway in the 19th century when Norway had the highest incidence of the disease in all of Western Europe. Would like to have heard more about Dr. Hansen and the Norwegian model to stop contagion through isolation, which was the only way to stop the spread of leprosy before drugs were formulated. The Norwegian model is still in use worldwide in 2022. Regarding loss of rights: Billions of people all over the world were denied their human rights when government enforced isolation during COVID-19. Many families were unable to visit aged parents in care centers, or their beloved in the hospital. While leprosy may be mildly contagious, it is a disfiguring disease with devastating physical, social, and emotional consequences. While COVID is highly contagious, for the vast majority of people the symptoms are mild and not life threatening. In either case, governments made the decision to force people into isolation. Leprosariums were used not only to protect the public from the leper but also to protect the leper from the public. Leper is a legitimate word based on the name of the bacteria that causes it.
My mom tells stories of how they would bring a picnic and throw half of it over the fence and have a picnic with my grandma who was a patient there.
There was a colony in northern New Brunswick? Canada
The home provided a place for people who had no place. We did not have the knowledge of the disease we do today.
Home? They were denied the right to vote! Like prisoners who had actually committed crimes. They were denied the right to get married! It wasn't a home, it was a prison with a ten foot fence topped by barbed wire and 24 hour guards. "Home"...pffft. It was a prison-hospital.