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
The ground appropriated for the purposes of a lazaretto has a frontage on the bay of about fourteen hundred feet, and extends back twelve hundred feet.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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
The disease reached its height in Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when 19,000 lazarettos are said to have been in existence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
He wished to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow-creatures to a still greater extent; so he formed the plan of visiting the hospitals and lazarettos set apart for contagious diseases in various countries.
From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson
