“Regardless of whether there’s a plague in Venice, these hospitals are permanently manned, ready and waiting for incoming ships that may be suspected of carrying an infectious disease. “They’re quite a remarkable early public health structure into which the government has to invest huge sums of money,” says Stevens Crawshaw. At a lazaretto, plague-infected patients would receive fresh food, clean bedding and other health-promoting treatments, all paid for by the state. It was a way to compassionately care for both new arrivals and local citizens who fell sick with the plague while keeping them isolated from the healthy. The lazaretto served two functions, as a medical treatment center and a quarantine facility. No medieval scribe dragged his quill across parchment for the.
Stevens Crawshaw, who wrote a book about plague hospitals, says that the name lazaretto is a corruption of the word Nazaretto, the nickname for the lagoon island upon which Venice built its first permanent plague hospital, Santa Maria di Nazareth. Proponents of Black Death as bubonic plague have minimized differences between modern.
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