San Lazaro HospitalSan Lazaro Hospital is a Marked Structure, NHCP located at Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region.
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San Lazaro Hospital
Founded as a dispensary in Intramuros by Fray Juan Clemente, 1577. Became hospital, 1578. Taken over by the Hermanidad de la Misericordia, 1596. Transferred to new building at the premises of the Philippine Normal College becoming the San Lazaro Hospital, 1631. Turned over to the Hermanos de San Juan de Dios, may 13, 1656. Building demolished for the protection of the city against the invasion of Chinese pirates, 1660. Transferred to another building nearby constructed by Fray Fernando de la Concepcion, 1675. Moved to a building in the present compound, 1784. Enlarged, 1785. Further improved by Pray Felix de Huertas who built a chapel and enclosed the premises with stone wall, 1859. Taken over by the Americans, 1898. It became a contagious disease hospital. Originally used for the treatment of lepers and later for venereal diseases, cholera, smallpox and bubonic plague victims at the turn of the Twentieth Century, burned in 1903; rebuilt in 1904 with wooden pavilions partly for an insane asylum, beautified, enlarged and new buildings constructed on March 5, 1921. With the transfer of insane patients to National Psychopathic Hospital in 1920, buildings were occupied by lepers. Admitted prisoners of war sick of malaria and dysentery on January 3, 1942, 1945 took care of civilian war casualties. When peace and order were restored and lepers were transferred to the Tala Leprosarium in 1949 the hospital resumed its normal activities and confined its services to other communicable diseases up to the present.