Leprosy in Montana. "The couple was placed under quarantine in a small cottage in rural Mineral County near Alberton and cared for at county expense. Mr. Willett refused to submit to painful chalmoogra oil treatments, which doctors at that time believed was a viable cure. Instead he resorted to faith healing as his health deteriorated. Ten years later in 1927, a legislative act committed Willett—who had continued to refuse medical treatment—to the federal leprosarium at Carville, Louisiana. Arsonists wasted little time after their departure for Louisiana. Their house and all their possessions burned to the ground." (photo and account courtesy Ellen Baumler and the Montana Historical Society)
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