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Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Diseases([1904-11]) [220-240] Charon Street, Montreal [Pointe-Saint-Charles], QC, Canada Health, Hospital [administration building, 3 pavilions, ambulance and mortuary building, laundry and power house, kitchen building, observation ward, and nurses' home]; brick; wall bearing Client: Alexandra Hospital Description: Alexandra Hospital was the infectious diseases institution for the English speaking community. Located at the southern edge of Pointe-Saint-Charles, a working-class neighbourhood in south-west Montreal near Verdun, its pavilions were distributed on a triangular site between Charon Street and railroad tracks, not far from Saint-Gabriel Farm, one of the oldest buildings on the island. Control of contagious diseases involved, according to medical principles of that time, isolating patients in dedicated wards and minimising points of access while providing maximum air circulation and sun. The three main wards (each occupying 2 floors as male and female patients were placed on the ground and first floor respectively), for treatment of measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever are connected by inclined covered passageways to the kitchen pavilion, behind the administration building facing Charon Street. Two smaller pavilions on either side and the emergency and mortuary building make up the public edge of the complex while the power and laundry building are backed up against the railway berm to the south. The hospital still exist but underwent major renovations; new streets (Frank Selke, Dick Irvin) criss-cross the site. Holdings: Hospital (administration building, 3 pavilions, ambulance and mortuary building, laundry and power house, kitchen building, observation ward, and nurses'home); brick; wall bearing | |
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