Definition of Pesthouse. Meaning of Pesthouse. Synonyms of Pesthouse

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Definition of Pesthouse

Pesthouse
Pesthouse Pest`house", n. A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

Meaning of Pesthouse from wikipedia

- A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis...
- Pesthouse Common, Richmond is an area of public open space on Queen's Road, Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is bordered by...
- pages under the title of Useless America by Jim Crace, whose book The Pesthouse was forthcoming from her imprint but which did not yet have a title. Useless...
- converted to the city's pesthouse, and was demolished in 1872. Also in 1872, Beechhurst Sanitarium was built near the pesthouse and the modern Grinstead...
- along with a financial reward ‘for his late faithfull service at the Pesthouse in the time of Infection to the greate hazard of his life’. Food, medicine...
- (656 ft) from the north-east coast of Menorca. In the past it was used as a pesthouse and later as farmland. It belonged to the Roca family from Mahón starting...
- oil availability leads to worldwide social collapse Novel 2007 War The Pesthouse Jim Crace Novel 2007 War The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya Novel 2007 War The...
- Lazaretto (pesthouse) for the Columbia River Quarantine Station, Knappton Cove, Washington, built 1912...
- typhoid quarantine hospital for about 40 infected people called the "Pelham Pesthouse". The remains of cobblestone walls and foundations are still there. It...
- Napoleon and his First Empire. While Bonaparte did actually visit the pesthouse, later, as his army prepared to withdraw from Syria, he ordered the poisoning...