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Nurses working for the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service in New York City took these snapshots, which show their lives and the lives of the families they cared for in the 1930s.
“Her son and twin babies.”
Although very rare, leprosy was greatly feared as disfiguring and highly contagious. Until sulfone treatment made leprosy non-contagious in the 1940s, people with leprosy were isolated in their homes or in institutions known as “leper colonies.”
The mother of these children had leprosy.
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