The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-10-16
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HOW LOUISIANA CARES
FOR ITS LEPROUS WARDS

NEW ORLEANS, Sept 1e.-Dr. outman Kohnke, president
Board of Healthy Dr. Isadoe Dyer president
the Louisiana Leper Board and the Rev. Albert Brevor s. j.
just visit the Louisiana Leper Home at
Camp Plantation Their visit has shown encouraging
condition of affairs there and possibility curing
exermnang in louisiana where it has prevailed for nearly
The ouly difficulty the the popular fear OF the
disease initiates only the unfortunate epers but
against eradicate the disease
was by the Spanish Government
years revived later along the lower
afourche the smuggling slave trade that center
ed about Lafe pirate stronghold Nothing of moment
fight plague years ago. under the pres
public opinion the State decided to take energetic steps
to get rid of leprosy.
Provision made the erection of epe home and laws were
epers home seggate them without hard
ship epers, extension Of the disease great
deal has been accomplished this ne but complete has
been by the popular dread of the disease
secured the Indian Camp Plantation in bervle
fact that is the Mississippi River eighty miles above
opposition people neghborhood
there loud protest but it too late to stop
The site found 1t damp the buildings
within easier New Orleans that distinguished
physicians might have an OF the hen
Orleans in Jefferson parish purchased for the 1t was
The the the purchase leaked out the buildings
the plantation burned the ground by the people of the
they they permit eper colony
neghborhood that they would continue burn down
every building erected there for that purpose
Leper compelled abandon project ore
attempted them comfortable there but public
prejudice has proved serious obstacle in the
when attending physician
secured the of DR. Ralph Hopkins for previously
had received only uncertain attention Provision for their
religious similarly Father Pierre Iafon
retired from the world to minister these unforunaes
The daughters ST. Vincent de Paul volunteered to do the
a There o was no difficulty ha Te G scss
practically closed the world to them.
ali these respects Kohnke Father
found great in the home The medical attendance
nursing found improved the condition the eers
hoong out the encouragement tha the disease Woud ed to
and its advance could be stayed it could not be
Indeed the improvement noted of the patients
the doctors to believe that cure was possible IN the
mider
conditions ended found
the buildings IN depoIabe condition. the roofs leaking and
of them the Winds the supply insufficient and the
subjected to many and annonces which, the
visitors believe, prevent their Improvement
The trouble due the fact that it is impossible work
buildings occupied by them Workmen that
the lumber the
I occupied by the lepers go rapidly to decay
The lepe themselves feeble work similar
there sufficient water supply AS the
There have heen brae new @ nilt S @ M @ @ cure, cure
induced handle newly
for and when they ready they will provide
for all the leprs cottages present occupied utterly
unfit for the patients
AS consequence the epers suffer greatly the
patients have burned themselves severely while huggg
closely in the vain effort to secure little warmth.
The
at meal hour of the lepers being obliged to walk
be carried while others walk slowly painfully and with
ment their condition Exposure cold and ncement weather.
bad for all sick especially hard the lep being
This condition of affairs lepers
public require the
Judge to report all erosy and have the epers removed
the home This duty confined the Board of Health
Orleans which has under DR. Kohnke carried
removed the cases of leprosy to Indian Camp.
The trials before the district have these patients
caed pers and therefore removable to the home of the