pest house
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A hospital for patients affected with plague or other infectious disease.
| Archaeology Dictionary: pest house |
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Early equivalent of the isolation hospital in post-medieval Britain. Managed by the parish and usually in an isolated situation for persons suffering from any infectious diseases.
| Medical Dictionary: pest house |
n.
A hospital for patients affected with plague or other infectious disease.
| Wikipedia: Pest house |
In the past, a pest house or pesthouse was a hospital or hostel used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, or smallpox. Often used for forcible quarantine, many towns and cities had one or more pesthouses accompanied by a cemetery or a waste pond nearby for disposal of the dead.
A 2007 novel by Jim Crace is entitled, The Pesthouse.
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