Three meals daily...

ID: 2988 ~ 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 of the 1953 Patient Handbook lists patients' cafeteria hours.

In addition, at about 9 p.m. every evening, the night watchman would push a cart with milk and bread, both produced on-site, through the corridors to offer a snack before "lights out."

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…