2nd Patient Cemetery at Carville, National Leprosarium.

ID: 2446 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of Vickie Joseph.

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

There are about 750 burials in this cemetery. The first burial was in 1922, and the last burial in 2014.

Only those patients who were quarantined by law may be buried here.

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…