Public Health leprosy leaves for Louisiana. Dr. H.E. Hasseltine of the Public Health Department leaves for the U.S. Marine Hospital at Carville, La., to give his aid on a leprosy problem there. ...

The National Hansen's Disease Museum in rural Carville, Louisiana, remembers and honors victims of the disease, better known as leprosy, who were once quarantined here and elsewhere across the United States (including ...

Saint Philomena Church on Molokai island, the home church of Father Damien, a missionary who ministered to shunned leprosy patients in the Hawaiian Islands

Sancutary of Saint Philomena Church on Molokai island, the home church of Father Damien, a missionary who ministered to shunned leprosy patients in the Hawaiian Islands

Saint Philomena Church, in Kalawao, on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii

Christ curing the lepers

[Eleanor Butler Roosevelt with her camera at a leper colony on Culion Island, Philippines]

Saint Philomena Church, the home church of Father Damien on the island of Molokai, Kalawao, Hawaii

Saint Philomena Church, home church of Brother Damien, a missionary who ministered to lepers on Hawaii's island of Molokai

[Charles H. Young and Willard Centilivre, lepers, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, Washington, D.C.]

Statue at Saint Philomena Church, home church of Brother Damien, a missionary who ministered to lepers on Hawaii's island of Molokai

Saint Philomena Church, home church of Brother Damien, a missionary who ministered to lepers on Hawaii's island of Molokai

Saint Philomena Church, the church of Father Damien, Kalawao, Hawaii

"Unclean! Unclean!"

"Unclean! Unclean!"--Lepers on the steps leading to the Honmyoji temple, Kumamoto, Japan

Town of Kalaupapa, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, HI

Post Office & Courthouse, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, HI

Gas Station, Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, HI

Two cases of Leprosy

Committee reported to Pres. Coolidge on progress being made to [...] for leprosy at the Corille [...]

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