The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.
    

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An den Congress zu Rastadt über die Ausrottung der Blattern = : Au Congrès de Rastadt sur l'extirpation de la petite vèrole / B.C. Faust.

Small hospital at the harbour at Chiavari, Italy: section, facade and plan. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1826.

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Nottingham: a verandah open to the air with a bed and a cot, each containing a child being treated for acute illness. Photograph, 1893.

Fourth annual report of the Watford and District Isolation Hospital 1897 / Robert A. St. Leger, Medical Superintendent.

An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.

An den Congress zu Rastadt über die Ausrottung der Blattern = : Au Congrès de Rastadt sur l'extirpation de la petite vèrole / B.C. Faust.

Hospital isolation of scarlet fever / by W. St. C. McClure.