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Alexandra Hospital for Contagious Diseases

Alexandra Hospital for Contagious Diseases was an English-language hospital in Pointe-Saint-Charles, in sud-ouest Montreal, Quebec constructed in 1906. The

History

Creation

- civic hospital - two hospitals or one? - location? - founders - for all

Contagious Disease Hospital (1906 - 196?)

- diseases - children - TB ward - John McCrae - nursing school

Home for chronically ill children (1968 - 198?)

- in 196X stopp taking contagious disease cases - Alexandra Pavillion, Children's Hospital - deinstitutionalisation

Social Housing (1990 - )

- demolition - renovation of the nurses quarters & administrative buildings - construction of non-profit housing, cooperative housing, and low-income public housing.

Notable figures

John MacCrae physician and author of the poem"In Flanders Fields", served in the scarlet fever ward