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40: 247: 197: 183:, was chosen as the location for a pest house and quarantine station as far back as 1785. In 1847, with a large influx of Irish migrants, the typhus epidemic quickly filled the fever shed with sick and dying. By the 1847 typhus season, 2115 people had died in New Brunswick, with 1196 dying at Partridge Island and in Saint John. 144:. Three sheds were initially constructed, 150 feet (46 m) long by 40 to 50 feet (15 m) wide. As thousands more sick immigrants landed, more sheds had to be erected. The number of sheds would grow to 22, with troops cordoning off the area so the sick could not escape. 385: 39: 209: 214: 219: 531: 574: 176: 564: 359: 519: 246: 31: 415: 282: 393: 180: 537: 157: 141: 107: 125: 165: 161: 71: 466: 440: 258: 548: 235: 196: 338: 309: 201: 156:, during the summer of 1847, 863 Irish immigrants died of typhus at fever sheds built by the 140:, between 3,500 and 6,000 Irish immigrants died in fever sheds in a quarantine area known as 278: 504: 313: 331: 316:), built in 1661 to accommodate many patients, although it has never served this purpose. 48: 569: 525: 493: 113: 558: 471: 117: 75: 94:, many towns and cities had one or more pesthouses accompanied by a cemetery or a 543: 272: 95: 91: 44: 224: 325: 17: 137: 83: 153: 79: 305: 263: 121: 87: 168:. There were at least 12 sheds, 22 metres long by 7.5 metres wide. 245: 195: 38: 335:, a Canadian-Irish docudrama partly set in fever sheds in Canada 27:
Building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases
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was a type of building used for persons afflicted with
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Pest House (Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia)
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Index

Fever shed
Pest House (disambiguation)

plague pit
Finsbury Fields
communicable diseases
tuberculosis
cholera
smallpox
typhus
quarantine
waste pond
Typhus epidemic of 1847
Eastern Canada
Irish
typhus
Great Famine
Montreal
Windmill Point
Toronto
Toronto Board of Health
King
John Street
Partridge Island, New Brunswick
Saint John

Wood County, Ohio
Pest House (Cockeysville, Maryland)
Pest House (Concord, Massachusetts)
Pest House (Stillwater, Minnesota)

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