Alexandra Hospital for Contagious Diseases
Date: c1907
Alexandra Hospital for Children, Point St. Charles, Montreal.
Also known as the Alexandra Hospital for Children, this building was constructed from 1904 to 1906 in Pointe-Saint-Charles to care for English speaking children and adolescents with infectious disease. At that time, such care included isolating patients in dedicated wards; the main ones at the Alexandra were for measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever. In 1948, it opened a tuberculosis ward specialized for meningeal disease. Because of declining incidence of 鈥渆pidemic鈥� childhood infections, the hospital dropped the modifier 鈥渇or contagious disease鈥� from its name in 1968 and changed its mission to long term care of children with physical and mental disabilities. In 1973, it merged with the Montreal 颁丑颈濒诲谤别苍鈥檚 Hospital (becoming its Alexandra Pavilion). The latter closed in 1988 and its buildings have since been converted into residential (social housing) units.
Date: c1907
Alexandra Hospital for Children.
Paired pipes to optimize the building鈥檚 ventilation are prominent on the rooftop edge.