Everything about The Philadelphia Lazaretto totally explained
The
Philadelphia Lazaretto was the first quarantine hospital in the United States, built in
1799, in
Tinicum Township,
Delaware County,
Pennsylvania. The site was originally inhabited by the
Lenni Lenape, and then the first
Swedish settlers in America. The facility predates similar national landmarks such as
Ellis Island and
Angel Island and is considered both the oldest surviving quarantine hospital and the last surviving example of its type in the United States.
History
The first quarantine station for the city of Philadelphia was erected in 1743 where the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers meet, but efforts to control disease epidemics in the City of
Philadelphia didn't begin in earnest until after the devastating
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, which killed between 4,000 and 5,000 inhabitants -- about one-tenth of the city's population at the time -- and led the national government, which was then located in Philadelphia, to temporarily move out of the city. Following that epidemic, the state of Pennsylvania in 1798 created a Board of Health, controlled by the city, with the power to levy taxes for public health measures.
The building was listed in the
National Register of Historic Places in 1972. In the early
21st century, the site was threatened with development, but due to the work of local preservationists has been saved from leveling.
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