Infectious Diseases Hospital

In the area directly above Africville, there werea lot of vacant lands owned by the city, railroads, Rockhead Prison (1853), “night-soil” disposal pits for the city, the Infectious Diseases Hospital (1870s) and the Trachoma Hospital (1905).

The IDH was a place that reflected the time in which it was built. With no modern medical ability to fight infectious diseases, patients who contracted such diseases as typhoid, diphtheria and other notorious scourges of the 19th and early 20th centuries (prior to modern medical treatments) were sent here to literally die out of sight.

While other communities in Nova Scotia and elsewhere had a similar institution, they were not commonly close to peopled areas. Such speaks to the views about Africville at the time.

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