Patient Playing Golf, National Leprosarium, Carville, Louisiana.
This file appears in: Lake Johansen, Station Farm, and Sports & Leisure at the National Leprosarium, Carville, Louisiana
Patients and staff at the hospital in Carville each had a 9-hole golf course. Quarantine and separation of the healthy from the sick extended to sports and leisure activities.
After a successful treatment for leprosy was discovered here by Dr. Guy Faget and his staff (1940's), outside sportsmen began to participate in golf tournaments on the grounds.
This file appears in: Lake Johansen, Station Farm, and Sports & Leisure at the National Leprosarium, Carville, Louisiana
Lake Johansen, Station Farm, and Sports & Leisure at the National Leprosarium, Carville, Louisiana
Up until the 1950s, the 80 or so acres ahead and to the left of you were farmed by about 30 laborers who grew fruits and vegetables to feed the staff and patients.
Corn was grown to feed…