In 1896 there were even three cases of leprosy, and a pest house was built outside of town to isolate the lepers.

If any place in the Union was a pest house of slugs, Iowa should have been it.

Cleveland's second hospital, the "pest house," was built on Whiskey Island following the Cholera epidemic of 1832.

The 8,000 homeless Jews found shelter either in the pest house or with compassionate Christians.

Referred to as a "pest house", it was used to screen for the infectious diseases that plagued immigrant ship passengers.

Among other measures, he ordered the construction of a pest house outside the city walls, the Berlin Charité.

The city council downplayed the plague cases in order not to impair trade, but set up a health commission and a pest house for quarantine measures.

It appears that Twickenham had a pest house (short for "pestilence") in the 17th century, although the location is not known.

Up until then there had been only a "pest house" for smallpox patients where they could be isolated to protect the community.

The hospital, instead of being reassuring, a refuge from pain and horror, was rapidly turning into a pest house.