Pest house
Building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Pest House (disambiguation).
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.