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Historical newspaper accounts suggest that the South View Isolation Hospital was the facility where contagious patients from all over the state (and region) were quarantined and treated. These diseases included scarlet fever and polio (1950s).
"Milwaukee's City Charter in 1877 provided for the purchase of land on which to build a hospital for the isolation of victims of smallpox and other contagious diseases, and by the early 1880's a two-story isolation hospital, first called Milwaukee City Hospital, later City Isolation Hospital, had between 1911 and 1920 saw construction of a second, larger facility, Southview Hospital, on an adjacent site and demolition of the 19th-century building. Modern immunization and medical care have all but eliminated the need for isolation hospitals, and so Southview has been converted to serve as South Side Health Center, from which Milwaukee's public health nurses perform their services to the community." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969.
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