Patient enterprises.

ID: 2986 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

This file appears in: Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life

This snippet from the 1953 Patients' Handbook lists the types of enterprises offered on-site.

"House 24" served as the Carville Mall for many years. Patients supplied one another with services that they could not access outside of the hospital. This also allowed many of the long-term quarantined patients to supply income for families outside of the Leprosarium, and pay into social security.

This file appears in: Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life

Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA & Kyle Hymel

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…