Jeffrey’s Reviews > Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice > Status Update

Carville was open from 1894 to 2015, closed to patients and became a museum.
Will go there to visit as soon as it possible.
The national treatment center still exists as an outpatient clinic in baton rouge (ochsner on o’neil)

“A person who is branded a leper suffers more from the word than the disease”
– Frederick C Lendrum, MD

The site is improving, better facilities more humane treatment, 1910-20s
Carville was the national Leprosarium

Fight after fight trying to set up a leper home
Finally decided on a site remote and difficult to get to from NO.
The local community did not want them there but felt sorry for them too
Finally the nuns, sisters of charity became the caregivers