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One of the new wooden cottages built around 1923 at the Public Health Service hospital for patients with leprosy or Hansen's disease in Carville, Louisiana (located between New Orleans and Baton Rouge). In 1899 Congress asked the Public Health Service to investigate the origin and prevalence of leprosy in the United States. As the problem became better defined, efforts were made to establish a national leprosarium. In 1921 the Federal Government purchased the Carville Leprosarium from the State of Louisiana for that purpose. Today, the hospital complex is known as the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center and provides diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative services for patients with Hansen's disease.
c. 1968
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