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Carville leper colony
Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:15 pm
I have to tell you the idea of a leper colony in the us for what is still not a very well understood disease is fascinating. I understand it has pretty much closed down and is now used by the national guard with few if any people still on it.
The last thing I saw was a bbc article from 2010.
LINK
I see people mention it from time to time saying that they sometimes saw people going to lsu games long after antibiotic therapy made the disease non infectious and treated it. The deformaties however would not go away.
Every once in a while I bring it up and see what stuff people remember or heard about.
It is interesting that a disease for which 90% of the population is immune to would cause such a problem.
Anyway, I could've posted on the OT but wanted serious responses. Any cool stories, rumors, history, articles, or anything you have on the old carville leper colony?
The last thing I saw was a bbc article from 2010.
LINK
I see people mention it from time to time saying that they sometimes saw people going to lsu games long after antibiotic therapy made the disease non infectious and treated it. The deformaties however would not go away.
Every once in a while I bring it up and see what stuff people remember or heard about.
It is interesting that a disease for which 90% of the population is immune to would cause such a problem.
Anyway, I could've posted on the OT but wanted serious responses. Any cool stories, rumors, history, articles, or anything you have on the old carville leper colony?
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Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:19 pm to thetempleowl
I worked on the conversion of the old leper dorms into high school boot camp dorm over 10 years ago. i remember going into the Cantine and seeing a guy in a wheel chair with bandages on he knee when a leg was amputated, and seeing fresh blood on the bandages. I did not like working there....
Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:22 pm to thetempleowl
Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:51 pm to Y.A. Tittle
That does sound pretty interesting...
Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:55 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:Have a copy sitting on my bedside table. I've been meaning to start it.
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Posted on 3/31/14 at 2:56 pm to thetempleowl
Do you know what the word "Pineville" used to mean?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:31 pm to Zach
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Do you know what the word "Pineville" used to mean?
I know there used to be an 'insane asylum' there - at least according to my parents.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:47 pm to thetempleowl
There are about seven lepers still at the colony....that's all I got. 
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:49 pm to Zach
quote:
Do you know what the word "Pineville" used to mean?
I do not besides from it being a town in louisiana. But I see the post below yours explaining what they heard. Is that it?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:50 pm to jonboy
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There are about seven lepers still at the colony....that's all I got.
So there are still seven people living there? I guess those that live there will continue to be allowed to live there.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:51 pm to thetempleowl
Yep. Pineville was a hospital for the insane.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:53 pm to Zach
quote:
Yep. Pineville was a hospital for the insane.
If I'm not mistaken, I think it was on the site of what was the original precursor institution to LSU.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 3:57 pm to thetempleowl
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So there are still seven people living there?
It could be less. I was there about 4 years ago and was told that there were about seven still living there.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:02 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
If I'm not mistaken, I think it was on the site of what was the original precursor institution to LSU.
Dunno. But I did visit there once. My maternal grandfather was committed there during the last few months of his life. I was about 5 years old when he died. His wife lived on for about 20 years. Living with her gave me an opportunity to learn why he went insane.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:04 pm to Zach
Explain. Your stories are always great.
I don't know why, but I feel like you are a living history book for some reasons sometimes.
I hoped you would jump in this thread.
Also, does anyone else have any personal interactions with the Carville colony or any of its patients?
I don't know why, but I feel like you are a living history book for some reasons sometimes.
I hoped you would jump in this thread.
Also, does anyone else have any personal interactions with the Carville colony or any of its patients?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:10 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:I read it a few years back. Interesting read.
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:20 pm to thetempleowl
quote:
Explain. Your stories are always great.
My grandfather immigrated from Spain as a child. Very poor and illiterate. He married a Cajun woman who was also poor and illiterate. But she beat him down every day.
He spoke Spanish and she spoke French. So they had to communicate in broken English.
He worked driving a team of horses delivering sugar cane syrup. He tried to make her happy by saving enough money to buy her a washing machine. She got pissed at the waste of money and beat him up. He couldn't defend himself since he was small, loved her, and had an artificial leg due to a childhood accident.
When trucks came around he lost his job and worked as a meter reader. I still remember him coming to my house to check the water meter when I was about 5. That's the last time I saw him before Pineville.
His wife moved into our house a few years after his death. My dad, bro and I built the extra room ourselves. No contractors. We had no money.
Grandma was a bitch from hell. She lived to be 90 and was NEVER happy. I had a lot of conversations with her when I was in HS. She kept telling me how much she missed her husband. I wanted to say "Then why did you treat him like a POS when he was alive?" But I didn't
I did learn a lesson. Don't whine about how good things used to be. Enjoy the now. Because the now is gonna be how things used to be.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:24 pm to jonboy
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about seven lepers
The feds gave the residents the choice as too where they would live when they would live when they shut it down twenty odd years ago. Most chose to leave. Others being institutionalized most of their lives decided to remain at the colony.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:25 pm to Zach
Great story.
I wonder if I will have stories like this when I get older.
I wonder if I will have stories like this when I get older.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:30 pm to Zach
quote:Is
Pineville was a hospital for the insane.
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