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Definition of Leprosaria
1. leprosarium [n] - See also: leprosarium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leprosaria
Literary usage of Leprosaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1901)
"ARE NATIONAL leprosaria IN THE UNITED STATES DESIRABLE? BY HM BRACKEN, MD, CHAIRMAN
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEPER HOME. In order to answer this question ..."
2. Hawaiian Investigation: Report of Subcommittee on Pacific Islands and Porto by John Hipple Mitchell, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, United States Congress Senate (1903)
"We respectfully submit that the matter of establishing the proposed leprosaria
and caring for those "of our people who are suffering with leprosy should be ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"The disease is transmitted with difficulty; however, doctors, nurses, sisters of
charity, ward tenders, and others directly exposed in leprosaria sometimes ..."
4. Correspondance Administrative D'Alfonse de Poitiers by Alfonse (1900)
"Domus Dei, leprosaria, ecclesia, n65, ... leprosaria el Domus Dei, 83a, ...
Villanova, 1930 (a). Villanova, 1708. prior, 1708. Domus Dei, leprosaria, 116. ..."
5. Year Book by Charleston (S.C.) (1901)
"The committee recommended the establishment of National leprosaria, and said
that: A leprosarium should afford a comfortable home for lepers. ..."
6. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"Sister Cypriana administrated the leprosaria attached to Pawa, ... These types
of leprosaria had been developed during the war years and went by the name of ..."
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