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 “epidemic” childhood infections, the hospital dropped the modifier “for contagious disease” 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 Children’s 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’s ventilation are prominent on the rooftop edge.