What does pest-house mean?

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pest-house

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

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noun

"[…] the patient may be taken from his warm room in his own house, and hussled ^([sic]) out into the cold, and off to the pest-house […]"

pest-houses (plural)

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