This is a photograph of "Dr. Blaber and two of our patients. A house made of coffin wood stands directly behind the fellow on the left. To the right of the coffin house is one of the new matt sheds for temporary abode." Dr. Harry Blaber, from Brooklyn, New York went to China for Maryknoll in 1935 to work with Frs. Joseph Sweeney and Francis Connors in their leprosarium in south China. After an initial five years he returned to the U.S., married and went back to China with his wife for another two years.
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