Srinagar leprosy hospital

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  A leper patient stands in front of one of the huts at the hospital.

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  A patient walks past one of the huts.

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  Patient Mukti is photographed in her room.

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  Mukti sits in her room at the hospital.

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  Nazia and her husband, leper patient Noor-u-Din feed their children.

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  Patient Mia Khatana walks around the compound.

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  Leper patient Mia Khatana holds his walking stick.

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  A patient prays in her room.

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  A patient at the hospital poses for a portrait.

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  A couple, both leper patients, pray in their room.

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  Patients stand in front of one of the huts.

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  The child of a leper patient sits in his family's room at the leprosy hospital in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.

The Srinagar leprosy hospital was founded by the British around 1891. At present there are just over a hundred patients living with their families in the hospital run by the Kashmir state government. The patients live in the same mud made structures which were built by the British over a century ago, most of them under unhygienic conditions and without proper sanitation.