Pest houses isolated patients with communicable diseases from the community, like Dr. A.W. Wiseman's in Jerusalem during a smallpox epidemic. This image shows one of the pest houses in Davie County.
To control the spread of smallpox and other contagious diseases, those afflicted or exposed were forcibly isolated in pest houses like this one in Avalon, NC. Note the quarantine rope in the right foreground.
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