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Depicted in this historic image, was a cottage that was used as a dwelling for a married couple. There were twenty-four such cottages located on the Carville, Louisiana Leprosarium colony's acreage. The Leprosarium was a self-contained compound with its own power plant, storehouse, patient treatment centers, including a dental office, food-processing facilities, a cafeteria, as well as its own cemetery. Because of the sequestration of the Leprosarium's patients, sometimes for many years, those that were married, were provided this type of dwelling place in order to maintain some semblance of a normal married life style.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Elizabeth Schexnyder, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Curator
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