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    1800 Carville1800's - Indian Camp - name referred to historic Houma (red) Indian's hunting and fishing ground located on the site of Carville some years earlier. Their village was apparently located on the Mississippi River south of this site. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1825 CarvilleThe site tract is purchased by Robert Coleman Camp on 12 May. His early farm or plantation was known as Woodlawn according to Persac's map of the Mississippi River published in 1858. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1857 Carville1857-1859 - Construction of the Center's Administration building - designed by the notable New Orleans architect, Henry Howard, who also designed Nottoway Mansion and other Mississippi River Road historic plantation manor houses, located on Louisiana's famous Great River Road. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1860 Carville1860-1874 - General Robert C Camp, a Virginia-born planter, commissions the construction of the plantation manor house, and brings his troops up from New Orleans for rest and relaxation on the site of Carville. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1894 CarvilleThe first seven patients, five men and two women, are transported from New Orleans by river barge to what is then a deserted Indian Camp Plantation. The Louisiana State Legislature, with Dr Isadore Dyer, a dermatologist and leprologist from Tulane University medical school, establishes the Control Board for the Louisiana Leper Home at Carville, Louisiana, "a place of refuge, not reproach; a place of treatment and research, not detention."
    http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1896 CarvilleDr Dyer and Mother Mariana contract an agreement for "the nursing of the patients and the household management" of the Louisiana Home. Four Catholic Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul from Emmitsburg, Maryland, arrive to provide care for the patients at the Louisiana Home under the leadership and charge of Sister Beatrice Hart. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1901 CarvilleLepers of Louisiana - A place of external exile on the Mississippi River - All the cases are hopeless - About 15 acres are inclosed in the leper colony - On three sides is a forest, and on the fourth is a river - How the men and women are lodged and cared for - Nearly 200 lepers in the state are harbored secretly by friends.' The Washington Post, Sunday, June 16, 1901. Included in 'Letter from the secretary of the treasury transmitting letter from the surgeon-general of the Marine-Hospital Service presenting a report relating to the origin and prevalence of leprosy in the USA.' Washington, 1902 (March 24).
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1903 CarvilleDyer, I, 'The history of the Louisiana Leper Home'. Bib. Int. Lep., 1903:3 (3) 168.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1904 CarvilleReport from the Louisiana Leper Home - 1904'. Bib. Int. Lep., 1904:4 (4) 251.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1904 CarvilleDyer, I, 'Nord-Amerika - Bericht - I.-The United States: Louisiana'. 5° Int. Dermat. Kong [5th International Dermatology Congress], Berlin, 1904:1, 166.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1904 CarvilleDyer, I, 'Report from the Louisiana Leper Home - 1904: Report of consultant leprologist'. Bib. Int. Lep., 1904:4 (4) 253.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1905 Carville1905-1916 - The state of Louisiana purchases the property and its contents in December 1905. The state at this time funds the first "Home" for patients in the United States. Many building improvements and the first covered walkways at the Home are constructed. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1906 Carville2 women and a boy are reported as cured of leprosy and discharged. The British Journal of Nursing, vol 36, p 432. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1916 CarvilleJohn Early, a patient from the Louisiana Home, goes to Washington DC to testify before Congress as to the need for a United States Hospital for Leprosy. His belief is that a Hospital and Research facility can offer the patients hope, instead of just custodial care in a remote place away from society. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1917 Carville3 February - an Act is established for a National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana. Senate Bill number 4086, initiated by William M Danner from the American Leprosy Missions, Rupert Blue MD, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service and Senator Joseph E Ransdell, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and National Quarantine, becomes a reality. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1920 CarvilleFabacher, L, Miller, A, Hopkins, R, Sister Edith, 'Thirteenth biennial report of the Board of Control for the Leper Home of the State of Louisiana to the Governor and General Assembly. - Reports of: Lawrence Fabacher, president; Arthur Miller, secretary; Ralph Hopkins, attending physician and Sister Edith'. Louisiana, 1920.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1920 CarvilleThe Home is sold by the state of Louisiana to the United States Federal Government for $35 000. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1921 CarvilleGovernment services. - Public Health Service takes up care of lepers'. J A M A, 1921:76 (12) 806.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1921 CarvilleGovernment services. - Improvements at National Leprosarium'. J A M A, 1921:77 (2) 134.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1921 CarvilleThe United States Public Health Service (USPHS) takes operational control and the Home becomes the United States Marine Hospital Number 66…The National Leprosarium of the United States. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1924 CarvilleEl Leprosarium Nacional de Carville - Luisiana'. Bol. Consejo Nac. Hig. Montevideo, 1924:19 (218) 922.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1924 CarvilleHoffman, F L, 'The leprosy situation in the United States in 1923'. J A M A, 1924:83 (21) 1707.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1925 CarvilleOliver, T, 'A visit to a lepers' colony'. Lancet, 1925 (5236) 57.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1928 CarvilleAraujo, H C S, 'Um leprosário modelo'. Rev. Hig. S. Pub., 1928:2 (4) 189.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1928 CarvilleDenney, O E, 'In the United States.- National Leprosarium at Carville, Louisiana'. Leprosy Notes, 1928 (3) 15.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1929 CarvilleAraujo, H C S, 'Estados Unidos da America: Leprosaria Nacional'. Extract from 'A Lepra - Estudos realizados em 40 paizes - 1924-1927'. A work of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1931 CarvilleFord, W, W, 'Lepra nos Estados Unidos'. Folia Clin. et Biol., 1931:3 (6) 248.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1931 CarvilleA patient named Stanley Stein, known as Carville's Crusader, prints the first issue of the Sixty-Six Star, an in-house patient two-page news sheet that later becomes The Star, an international publication. He also writes a book about his fight for human rights for each of his fellow patients called Alone No Longer. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1932 CarvilleNuñez, S, 'El Leprosario de Carville'. Bol. Of. Sanit. Panamer., 1932:11 (1) 5.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
    1932 CarvilleContinentino, L, 'Colônia Santa Isabel - Dados estatisticos e informações sobre leprosarios: Leprosario Federal de Carville. - Conferencia feita na Sociedade Mineira de Engenheiros'. Extract from Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 5-4-1932.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [USA]
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