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Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:44 pm to thetempleowl
When I was in 5th grade, my first camp out with the Boy Scouts was the annual camporee competition. That year, it was held at the old leper colony in Carville. Due to the competition being cutthroat and the sub-freezing temperatures, most of my patrol quit soon there-after.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:21 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:Read it about 6 months ago. Very interesting book.
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:23 pm to thetempleowl
quote:This explains James Carville.
Carville leper colony
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:27 pm to Mindenfan
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Pineville was a hospital for the insane.
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Is
Pineville is a hospital for people with special needs. Some maybe insane but most are individuals with varying degrees of mental retardation. It's actually a beautiful campus.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:47 pm to kingbob
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Due to the competition being cutthroat and the sub-freezing temperatures, most of my patrol quit soon there-after.
Cut throat competition in the 5th grade?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:50 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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If I'm not mistaken, I think it was on the site of what was the original precursor institution to LSU.
Close by, but not right on the site. The VA hospital is on the original LSU site. You can still see the foundations of the original building on the grounds of the VA hospital.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:51 pm to La Place Mike
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Pineville is a hospital for people with special needs
A nurse that posts here that I know did her clinicals there and I have been there visiting her. The people that I saw were unquestionably insane.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 7:37 pm to thetempleowl
I went on a field trip to the hospital when I was in elementary school, probably 5th or 6th grade. I remember that we saw a film about the disease and ate lunch there. There were patients there. It was pretty freaky.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 7:40 pm to bencoleman
Yes, Pineville was and is a mental hospital, its official name is Central Louisiana State Hospital.
I had an uncle who was institutionalized and died there.
LC
I had an uncle who was institutionalized and died there.
LC
Posted on 3/31/14 at 8:44 pm to Y.A. Tittle
I bid on 2 tons of cat food, to feed he armadillos at Carville, back in the late 70's.Armadillos could contract lepracy and they were used for research.
I arrived at the research area,and knocked on the door. Two workers in what looked like space suits opened the door. They told me to come in and stack the food in some room.
I informed them that I was not going inside stacked the cat food by the door and never bid on Carville cat food again.And that's the truth.
I arrived at the research area,and knocked on the door. Two workers in what looked like space suits opened the door. They told me to come in and stack the food in some room.
I informed them that I was not going inside stacked the cat food by the door and never bid on Carville cat food again.And that's the truth.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 10:11 pm to bencoleman
quote:Yes they do have insane people there, but many there are metally retarded and not insane. I know three different families that had children there. They were not insane, but they were mentally retarded.
The people that I saw were unquestionably insane.
I go there at least once a year. Not as a patient.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:45 am to La Place Mike
Went to school with a Dr. Jacobsen's kids. He was a doc at Carville
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:48 am to thetempleowl
If you ever get a chance to visit it do so!
I know they don't have escorted tours everyday, maybe the 1st Saturday of the month.
But you can watch an incredible video, that I think was done on PBS. It has interviews with people who were patients there, and their children. And then you can do a self-guided tour.
Homeland Security uses the place now, so there will be Fed peaux-peaux at the gate.
It was started by some nuns from NOLA after the Civil War. When they bought the patients down from NOLA by boat, the Captain had the patients stay on the very last barge. Just think the Leper colony in Ben Hur. That's how people were treated until the last hundred years or so.
What really helped to change people's attitude, was that so many people from "nice" families got it. One was the wife of a high ranking US military officer serving in the Philippines. These people had connections, who helped to erase the stigma of leprosy.
It was also remarkable, the number of healthy spouses who went there to be with their sick partner. Many refused to be separated.
Really one of the most fascinating places I've ever visited.
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I know they don't have escorted tours everyday, maybe the 1st Saturday of the month.
But you can watch an incredible video, that I think was done on PBS. It has interviews with people who were patients there, and their children. And then you can do a self-guided tour.
Homeland Security uses the place now, so there will be Fed peaux-peaux at the gate.
It was started by some nuns from NOLA after the Civil War. When they bought the patients down from NOLA by boat, the Captain had the patients stay on the very last barge. Just think the Leper colony in Ben Hur. That's how people were treated until the last hundred years or so.
What really helped to change people's attitude, was that so many people from "nice" families got it. One was the wife of a high ranking US military officer serving in the Philippines. These people had connections, who helped to erase the stigma of leprosy.
It was also remarkable, the number of healthy spouses who went there to be with their sick partner. Many refused to be separated.
Really one of the most fascinating places I've ever visited.
LINK /
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:49 am to thetempleowl
The older buildings would be a fantastic set for a horror movie. I don't think they use them anymore.
The National Guard has a lot out behind it.
The National Guard has a lot out behind it.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 7:51 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:58 am to Gray Tiger
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Cut throat competition in the 5th grade?
The scouts there ranged from 5th grade through seniors in high school. My patrol of all 5th graders was competing against patrols of all juniors and seniors.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:10 am to La Place Mike
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Pineville is a hospital for people with special needs. Some maybe insane but most are individuals with varying degrees of mental retardation. It's actually a beautiful campus.
I had to do some IT related work there around 2010. That whole place gave me the creeps. The campus was laid out in several different buildings holding patients with different levels of mental disabilities. Most, as you said, were severly retarded, many to the extent of doing nothing but drooling and making incoherent noises. They told us to just ignore them and go along with our work as quickly as possible. There was one building that they wouldn't allow to go into, citing safety concerns. I have no idea how people can work in an environment such as that everyday. There isn't enough money in the world for me to do that.
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