Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Julia Dobbs was 15 when she came to Carville, site of the only leprosy hospital in the continental U.S., in 1956. She in unique in being the only one-time patient who has ever returned as a staff member, teaching at the school where she won her high school diploma shortly before her disease was arrested by drugs, probably permanently. Despite treating patients with sulfone for the past 15 to 20 years, leprosy is further from control now that it had been in the 1940s.
Julia Dobbs was 15 when she came to Carville, site of the only leprosy hospital in the continental U.S., in 1956. She in unique in being the only one-time patient who has ever returned as a staff member, teaching at the school where she won her high school diploma shortly before her disease was arrested by drugs, probably permanently. Despite treating patients with sulfone for the past 15 to 20 years, leprosy is further from control now that it had been in the 1940s.
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Julia Dobbs was 15 when she came to Carville, site of the only leprosy hospital in the continental U.S., in 1956. She in unique in being the only one-time patient who has ever returned as a staff member, teaching at the school where she won her high school diploma shortly before her disease was arrested by drugs, probably permanently. Despite treating patients with sulfone for the past 15 to 20 years, leprosy is further from control now that it had been in the 1940s.

United Press International · [ca. May 1971]

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