Patients' Dormitories, constructed 1940-41.

ID: 2981 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.
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Each new "house" had individual rooms for 30 patients. Living rooms and bathrooms were shared areas on each floor.

Screened porches, front and back, added to air circulation. Air-conditioning didn't become available until the late 1960s.

The covered and screened corridors connecting all dorms gave patients, many in wheelchairs, maximum mobility and independence.

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