Pest house

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".

References

* Freedictionary definition [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pest+houses]

External links

* [http://www.gravegarden.org/pesthouse.htm Lynchburg VA Museum pesthouse]
* [http://www.findonvillage.com/0504_the_pest_house.htm Findon Pesthouse]
* [http://www.netlists.net/odiham-society/pesthouse.html The Pest House Odiham]
* [http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=107314| Pest house memories] by Doug Monroe (review of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry)


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