Essex Hospital

Essex Hospital
Geography
LocationCat Island, Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates42°30′45.59″N 70°48′54.22″W / 42.5126639°N 70.8150611°W / 42.5126639; -70.8150611
Organization
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialitySmallpox
History
Construction started1773
Opened1773
Closed1774
Demolished1774
Links
ListsHospitals in Massachusetts

The Essex Hospital was a privately built smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island (now Children's Island) where many people were effectively inoculated against smallpox in 1773–1774. About a year after it opened, it was burned to the ground by paranoid and angry townspeople of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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