Sr. Hilary Ross in Patient Cemetery, Carville, National Leprosarium.

ID: 2445 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

This file appears in: Carville Patients' Cemetery, National Leprosarium.

Probably late 1920s, early 1930s.

This file appears in: Carville Patients' Cemetery, National Leprosarium.

Carville Patients' Cemetery, National Leprosarium.

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

The Carville cemetery is the only stop on the tour where you may exit your vehicle and take photographs. Just beyond the cemetery is a hospital incinerator with a driving ramp and tower built in…