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Mr. A. K. Hrousscao. one of the members of the Board of Administra-! tors of lbe Charity Hospital, made; the assertion at the last meeting of the Board that there are at least 5,000 lepers iu the State. There is now a bill before the State Legislature to establish a lepers’ hospital at j Fort Pike in the extreme eastern part of Orleans parish, on Lake Pont-ehvtrain. Dr. Beard »eem3 to beat the bead of the movement. Are | thene (too* miserable and nnfortunatebeings to be farmed out to him? And are we llt;5 have a renewal of the horrors narrated some time ago by the New Orleans Press in connection with Dr. Beard and -the lepere’ hospital? The State most be just nnd^ sMoifol -to these outcasts of
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The Banner Democrat
Lake Providence, Louisiana, US
Sat, Jun 16, 1894
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