pesthouse

No one would come to a pesthouse in the East End without a desperate reason.

It is even said he burned the pesthouse in order to cover up what he had done.

In the past it was used as a pesthouse and later as farmland.

But perhaps part of that obligation was to tell her of the dangers she faced spending her time in a pesthouse like this.

He founded the pesthouse in Bogotá.

A Scholar can build a church, a tinctury, and the pesthouse (which may be upgraded to an infirmary, then to a hospital).

Also in 1872, Beechhurst Sanitarium was built near the pesthouse and the modern Grinstead entrance.

In 1741, Governor George Thomas petitioned the Assembly to create a pesthouse for the ill as an alternative to keeping them on board the ship.

Food was scanty, one blanket for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pesthouse.

Incoming ships were quarantined in Boston harbor, and any smallpox patients in town were held under guard or in a "pesthouse."

Construction of the building cost £10,000, accommodate 400 inmates and was built on Pesthouse Lane standing adjacent to the site of the Barham Picnic area.

The school also retained use of the former Richmond school playing fields at Pesthouse Common, (now the site of Christ's School).

There he meets Margaret, stricken by a plaguelike disease and deposited by her family in a hut - the pesthouse of the title - to heal or die.

A pest house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox or typhus.

THE PESTHOUSE, by Jim Crace.

After the Pennsylvania legislature approved the idea, funds were appropriated to purchase Province Island, at the mouth of the Schuylkill River, as the location for the pesthouse and hospital.

Continuing the pattern of recent post-apocalyptic novels flooding the shelves of booksellers everywhere comes Jim Crace's "The Pesthouse" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; $24.95).

Drinking at the Meadows had become more careful since the war - more mature, Kroner said - so the pesthouse fell into disuse and was finally converted into a meeting place for top-policy brass.

Barham has one pub, The Sorrel Horse and Barham is also known for the Gaps Fishing lakes situated next to the Barham Picnic site on Pesthouse Lane.

During the typhoid fever scares of the 1800s, Rat Island was used by Pelham, New York as a typhoid quarantine hospital for about 40 infected people called the "Pelham Pesthouse".

He would not be openly offensive without provocation, but his view of her was the same as his view would have been of Mary, or any of the other East End women who helped in the pesthouse.

The Anglican minister John Yeo wrote scathingly to the Archbishop of Canterbury, complaining that Maryland was "in a deplorable condition" and had become "a sodom of uncleanliness and a pesthouse of iniquity".

A medieval leper colony, on Royston Road, was located during excavations in 2003, having been thought for many years to lie to the south-east of the town on the former Pesthouse Lane (now Clothall Road), the A507.

In 1623 a workhouse was established on the site and when the new workhouse was built in Crane Street the Bugmore workhouse probably became a pesthouse because a pesthouse was ordered to be demolished in 1688.