Definition of "sickhouse"

The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.

1830, Frederic William Naylor Bayley, Four years' residence in the West Indies

What was still called the new sickhouse, where people were taken to be tended if their illness was contagious, […]

1993, Robert Jordan, The shadow rising

Four months after giving birth to a daughter, Peggy returned to the sickhouse with a "rising breast," […]

2002, Sharla M. Fett, Working cures