Pest house
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pest-house-165-3753550
title:
Pest house
text:
A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox or typhus. 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.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pest_house
date created:
2006-01-08T21:20:10Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T06:41:05Z
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