Pest house
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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 forci
1865 depiction of the pest house and plague pit in Finsbury Fields
Pest house in Findon, England
The Pest House in Wood County, Ohio, US.
Goose Village
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Goose Village was a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its official but less commonly used name was Victoria town, after the adjacent Victoria Bridge.
Old Victoriatown train station, as it appeared in 2007.
Aerial view of the Goose Village neighbourhood, taken between 1947 and 1949 (Archives de la Ville de Montréal)
Goose Village children, c. 1910
The Black Rock, commemorating thousands of Irish "ship fever" victims.