Word: leprosarium
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Recently, through his syndicate, Dallis got a letter of protest from a former attendant at the Carville, La. leprosarium. Rex, it seemed, had chided one of his comic-strip friends for treating his girl "like a leper." Result: after Morgan puts Landros behind bars, he will tackle the subject of leprosy, or, as Carville prefers to call it, Hansen's disease...
...grateful U.S. War Department decorated Joey with the Medal of Freedom with silver palm, the third highest award that can be given to a foreign civilian. Later the Justice Department waived immigration restrictions, gave her a temporary visa to enter the U.S. for treatment at the Carville, La. leprosarium. After TIME reported the story of her wartime exploits and her arrival at Carville (TIME, July 19, 1948), more than 4,000 readers wrote letters expressing their sympathy and interest in Joey's future...
...needy, orphans and old folks. In the name of the President and the Public Health Service, she manages one of the world's greatest medical research centers, provides operations for harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education, she distributes funds to land-grant colleges and administers the teacher-student exchange program with foreign countries. She is legally concerned with the problem of tapeworm control among Alaskan caribou, with cancer research, and with the attitude of Congress toward fluoridation of children...
Then we saw Tala, a series of quonset huts, set in a small valley. Large letters on the roof of the largest hut spelled out TALA LEPROSARIUM FOR ALL TO SEE AND BE WARNED. Joey was there to greet us, and behind her were 300 men, women & children, all smiling and eager to help us unload the instruments, including the piano...
Elsewhere in Kwangtung, the Communist news agency reported, a father tracked down and turned over to the Communists his own son, with these words: "My son is a criminal to the people. He should be killed." Ten lepers in a leprosarium protested against poor food; they were branded as "special agents" and shot. The terror struck at anyone who received a letter from the U.S., at Christian churchgoers, at those who had been connected with the Nationalists or with foreigners...