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
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
A. C. Smith, who resides near Tracadie, states that at the latter date but three cases were known to exist outside the lazaretto.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 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
As regards lazarettos, he found, as he had found with regard to prisons and hospitals, that their condition depended in a great degree on the amount of care taken by the ruler of the city.
From The Red Book of Heroes by Arthur Wallis Mills
