House of Refuge, c. 1860

dc.contributor.author	Unknown
dc.date.accessioned	2008-05-16T17:21:56Z
dc.date.available	2008-05-16T17:21:56Z
dc.date.issued	1860
dc.identifier.citation	House of Refuge, c. 1860. Toronto Public Library, TRL, Historial Picture Collection, B 4-66b.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/1255
dc.description	Note: Established in 1860 on the site of today’s Bridgepoint Health on the east side of the Don north of Gerrard, the House of Refuge provided shelter for “vagrants, the dissolute, and for idiots.” It was used an an isolation hospital during the smallpox epidemics of the 1870s; a separate part of the building housed homeless elderly people during the 1880s and 90s. The original building was demolished in 1894, and a new structure operating under the name of the Riverdale Isolation Hospital became Toronto’s treatment and teaching centre for infectious diseases in 1904. As infectious diseases declined in the twentieth century, the building was renamed the Riverdale Hospital in 1957.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Changing Urban Waterfronts research project	en
dc.publisher	Location: Toronto Public Library	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	TRL, Historial Picture Collection, B 4-66b	en
dc.subject	House of Refuge	en
dc.subject	Don River	en
dc.subject	isolation hospital	en
dc.subject	smallpox	en
dc.title	House of Refuge, c. 1860	en
dc.type	Image	en