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A hospital sits abandoned on the banks of the Delaware River near Philadelphia that once sheltered sick immigrants arriving by ship to America.
The Federal style building is called the Lazaretto and is the oldest surviving quarantine station and hospital in the Western Hemisphere in what is now Tinicum Township in Delaware County, Pa. When it was a quarantine station, the Lazaretto physician, staff nurses and others cared for passengers and crew suffering with contagious diseases.
To learn more, read our story, The Lazaretto: Forgotten hospital is one of the world's oldest quarantine stations.
Videos
Watch as historian David Barnes, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania, and other experts explain the hospital's hidden history in this video story. Click here!
Watch our video that highlights the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. Click here!
Webcast
Listen as Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of public health at Temple University in Philadelphia, explains disease control efforts used in modern day epidemics in this audio report. Click here!
Photo Gallery
View photos of the Lazaretto here!
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