lazaretto
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In the Philadelphia area, a gracious lazaretto in the Georgian style was inaugurated beside the Delaware River six years after an outburst of yellow fever in 1793 claimed the life of one in 10 residents.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
It’s also likely that if you’ve never heard of Bruce Springsteen — in whatever dark-ops lazaretto you might’ve been held captive in for four decades — you might not pick up this book at all.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
A lazaretto is a medical quarantine, traditionally occupied by contagious sea dogs returned from voyage.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2014
A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto.
From Time Magazine Archive
This over, we were forthwith marched to the lazaretto, escorted by guards and soldiers, who behaved very civilly and kept at a respectful distance from us.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
Calling themselves “quarantine tourists,” they trace the footsteps of “philanthropist, vegetarian, and prison-reform advocate” John Howard, who, in 1785, set out to inspect the condition of people placed in Mediterranean lazarettos, or quarantine hospitals.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
It is one of the few surviving lazarettos in the United States.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
A tiny island in the Venetian Lagoon in Italy, Santa Maria di Nazareth, is the site of one of the first lazarettos.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
He passed days in pest-houses and lazarettos, and finally laid down his life in the blessed work of charity at Cherson in the Crimea.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
A large caravanserai outside the walls is used as a quarantine station, and three others are taken as lazarettos.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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