Bench Warrant to the Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans to take patient to LA Leper Home, November 19, 1901. Document Courtesy of the LSU Hill Memorial "Louisiana Leper Home" collection.

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Bench Warrant to the Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans to take patient to LA Leper Home, November 19, 1901.<br />
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Document Courtesy of the LSU Hill Memorial "Louisiana Leper Home" collection.

Leprosy was quarantined by Louisiana law until the late 1950's.

Note that the legal form has been altered to read "an alleged Leper" instead of "indigent" or "lunatic".

This file appears in: Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

Indian Camp Plantation / Louisiana Leper Home

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

In the 1700s, Europeans settled this area known as Indian Camp and developed a plantation economy along the Mississippi River. Robert Camp, a planter from Virginia, began purchasing land here in the 1820s. He farmed sugarcane and owned about 100…