Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Navy Will Treat Pacific Lepers. On tiny Tinian Island in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is completing construction of a temporary leprosarium, shown below, with facilities for treating a hundred patients, natives of the Marianas, Marshalls, Carolines, Palaus and Yap. Until now the only treatment they did get was to be segregated as outcasts by their neighbors. Above, is a typical native hut on Yap in which lepers live their isolated lives in an area set aside from the inhabited parts of the island.
Navy Will Treat Pacific Lepers. On tiny Tinian Island in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is completing construction of a temporary leprosarium, shown below, with facilities for treating a hundred patients, natives of the Marianas, Marshalls, Carolines, Palaus and Yap. Until now the only treatment they did get was to be segregated as outcasts by their neighbors. Above, is a typical native hut on Yap in which lepers live their isolated lives in an area set aside from the inhabited parts of the island.
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Navy Will Treat Pacific Lepers. On tiny Tinian Island in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is completing construction of a temporary leprosarium, shown below, with facilities for treating a hundred patients, natives of the Marianas, Marshalls, Carolines, Palaus and Yap. Until now the only treatment they did get was to be segregated as outcasts by their neighbors. Above, is a typical native hut on Yap in which lepers live their isolated lives in an area set aside from the inhabited parts of the island.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. October 1948]

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