Hewitt's History Files
LEPROSY in medieval Chichester was, as might reasonably be expected, a grim affair- and during which a cure was never part of the agenda.
To have attempted a cure would have been to intervene with divine will as former district archaeologist John Magilton explains. And no-one would have wanted to do that.
Far more to the point it would have been the aspirations of those running leper hospitals to minimise their time in purgatory.
For full feature see West Sussex Gazette November 12