lazaretto

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

They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thence we were taken to the health-office, where a bill of health was made out for eight persons going to a lazaretto!

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

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

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

It is one of the few surviving lazarettos in the United States.

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

The leprosy was common, and two lazarettos were filled with its victims.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various