Carville Driving Tour, Stop # 5 (Patient Life) on the Carville: The National Leprosarium tour
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Audio narration for Stop # 5 (Patient Life) on the Carville: The National Leprosarium tour
This file appears in: Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life
Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life
In 1940, the patient population was between 400 and 450 and a massive renovation was underway. The improved hospital created individual rooms for 450 patients and the 13” thick concrete walls made the buildings as fireproof as possible. Fire was…