“New Orleans Lepers”
This file appears in: The Daughters of Charity: From New Orleans to Carville
Twenty-five known cases of Leprosy in New Orleans prompted the citizens of the city to demand action to contain and detain those inflicted with the dreaded disease.
This file appears in: The Daughters of Charity: From New Orleans to Carville
The Daughters of Charity: From New Orleans to Carville
In 1896, the Daughters of Charity boarded a barge on the Mississippi River at Canal Street heading to Carville, Louisiana, about 70 miles upriver from New Orleans. Carville was the new site of the…