pest houses

• Pest houses specialised in the treatment

  of a single type of disease (e.g. pox

  houses

  or plague houses).
• · Lezar houses for Leprosy were also

  examples.
• · Provided because of a growing

  understanding that disease could be

  spread from person to person. But

  knowledge of how was not known.
• · Provided care for those with contagious

  diseases that hospitals wouldn’t admit.