Word: hornbostel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they got back to the U.S. from the Philippines in 1945, Major Hans George Hornbostel was 64, his wife Gertrude was 54. World War II had treated them cruelly. Major Hornbostel, an ex-Marine officer who had been commissioned by the Army when war broke out, had fought on Bataan, had endured the infamous Death March and spent years in prison. Gertrude had spent three years as a prisoner in Manila amid the dreary terrors of Santo Tomas...
...Francisco fate struck another terrible blow. Doctors found that Gertrude Hornbostel had contracted leprosy. Except for World War II, the Hornbostels had never been separated since their marriage on Guam in 1913. Major Hornbostel made an instant decision. When his wife was sent to the National Leprosarium at Carville, La., he went with her. He prepared to stay for life, settled down near the hospital grounds. The aging couple spent a great part of every day together...
Last week medical men at Carville wrote a happy ending to the Hornbostel story: Mrs. Hornbostel, who had shown "remarkable improvement," was released from isolation and the couple headed for New York and a new start in life...
...lepers, who are still, in effect, belled over all the earth, Christmas 1946 had special meaning. At the only U.S. leprosarium, in Carville, La., the 378 patients (whites, Negroes, Orientals) raised their first community Christmas tree. Major Hans G. Hornbostel, whose wife entered six months ago, played Santa Claus. In Washington, leprologists, gathered at a special conference, made the celebration official. They were ready to announce the first real hope of a leprosy cure...
...hopeful that [the Hornbostel case] will give us the opportunity to present a "leprosy-conscious" nation facts in connection with our illness; one of which is that we are sick and not criminals, and that in the long run the publicity will aid us in our fight to substitute truth and justice for ignorance and prejudice...