"Hope House," patient dormitory at the Louisiana Leper Home, 1906. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections. Carville, LA.

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"Hope House," patient dormitory at the Louisiana Leper Home, 1906.<br /> <br /> <br /> Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections. Carville, LA.

After 10 years of renting, the state of Louisiana purchased the Indian Camp Plantation property in 1905 and began building permanent structures. Public protest surged at every attempt the state made to relocate the Leper Home.

Rebuilding the Leper Home closer to New Orleans was always the intent; that's where all of the medical experts and supplies were. Physicians from Tulane University's Department of Tropical Medicine were involved in lending their expertise, but a physician only traveled by river boat from New Orleans to care for the patients one day per week.

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