Isolation hospital where plague patients were held and from which the crowd freed them.
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Bubonic plague — Isolation hospital where plague patients were held and from which the crowd freed them.
2 · Chronology
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7 January 1906
During the bubonic plague episode a popular riot sacked the Funchal Lazaretto at Gonçalo Aires and freed its patients; the disturbances forced the bacteriology laboratory director Balbino do Rego to leave his post.
