Lazareto de Gonçalo Aires
Santa Maria Maior · Funchal
building in the parish of São Gonçalo, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
The Lazareto de Gonçalo Aires is a quarantine building at the mouth of the Ribeira de Gonçalo Aires, decreed in 1849. It was turned into a plague isolation hospital and sacked by rioters on 7 January 1906. It was later used to intern political deportees, including those of 1919, and German residents during the Great War.
1Mentioned in
- Gonçalo Aires (stream) — Lazaretto at the stream's mouth.
- Misericórdia of Santa Cruz — The quarantine building where the same Franciscan sisters set up a hospital during the last smallpox epidemic.
- Rocha da Meia Légua — Landmark west of the cliff, used to locate it.
- Historical dates — Decreed 1849; attacked by a mob during the 1906 plague.
- Vasconcelos e Sá (João Augusto de) — Where political deportees including the poet were held.
- Salema Vaz — Where the 1919 political deportees were interned.
- Great War — Where German residents were interned.
- Passos Freitas (Humberto de) — Where political deportees were held before he helped them escape.
- Popular riots — Isolation hospital sacked by rioters on 7 January 1906.
- Prison — Proposed site for the prison in 1897.
- Lazareto (road) — Quarantine hospital whose grounds the road bounds to the north.
- Rego (Dr António Balbino do) — Lazaretto turned into an isolation hospital for plague patients under Rego.
- Wilson (Miss Mary Jane) — Site of the 1907 smallpox isolation hospital she directed.
- Freitas da Silva (Dr João de) — Quarantine hospital he directed.
- Meia Légua — Reference point west of the rock.
- Cholera morbus in 1856 and 1910 — Used as a cholera hospital in 1910.
- Political deportees — Quarantine building where the 1919 monarchist prisoners were interned.
2Chronology
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Bubonic plague appeared in Funchal in late 1905 without becoming epidemic; patients were isolated at the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto, whose strict isolation fed popular fear and unrest.
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A short smallpox outbreak in Funchal was contained by isolating patients in the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto, where Miss Mary Jane Wilson directed the isolation hospital.
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Some 289 political prisoners from the monarchist revolt, among them Salema Vaz, landed in Funchal from the steamer Africa and were interned in the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto.