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On the strength of the hopeful new treatments, the newly created National Advisory Council on Leprosy decided last week that it was high time for a more humane attitude toward lepers. Their recommendations (to Surgeon General Thomas Parran): 1) new diagnostic centers and clinics for treatment in the four states where leprosy is endemic; 2) segregation only as a last resort (in contagious stages); 3) pleasanter surroundings and more freedom for Carville's lepers, including a month's vacation every six months.
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- Patients are still called "inmates." Most use fictitious, names, to protect their families. Their outgoing letters are sterilized before mailing. … visits home are difficult because lepers may not travel on trains, buses or other common carriers. Carville patients sometimes marry each other, but their children (susceptible to the disease) are removed as soon as they are born.
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Comments/discussion: The cited source mentions Promin as one of 3 promising new drugs for leprosy (in 1946), and says changed treatment for lepers was recommended. Sharktopus talk 23:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by
Crisco 1492 (
talk)
Created by Slashme (David Richfield) ( talk). Self nom at 09:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
On the strength of the hopeful new treatments, the newly created National Advisory Council on Leprosy decided last week that it was high time for a more humane attitude toward lepers. Their recommendations (to Surgeon General Thomas Parran): 1) new diagnostic centers and clinics for treatment in the four states where leprosy is endemic; 2) segregation only as a last resort (in contagious stages); 3) pleasanter surroundings and more freedom for Carville's lepers, including a month's vacation every six months.
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- Patients are still called "inmates." Most use fictitious, names, to protect their families. Their outgoing letters are sterilized before mailing. … visits home are difficult because lepers may not travel on trains, buses or other common carriers. Carville patients sometimes marry each other, but their children (susceptible to the disease) are removed as soon as they are born.
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Comments/discussion: The cited source mentions Promin as one of 3 promising new drugs for leprosy (in 1946), and says changed treatment for lepers was recommended. Sharktopus talk 23:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)