Smyrna Izmir, Turkey - Karantina (Küçükyali) Buildings
American College, Smyrna Memorabilia
Karantina Island (Karantina Adası) Hospital
The building on the small island of Karantina facing Urla was used as a Quarantine hospital, possibly French built but not used exclusively by French mariners and passengers from and to Izmir in Ottoman times, as a way station.
The building was in operation between 1865 and 1950. The Smyrna Karantina-Quarantaine sanitary administration moved in 1864 from Izmir’s Karantina suburb to this island off Urla connected with a causeway to the mainland. The island was then called Karantina for the purpose of sanitary control on passengers coming from ports considered risky to spread contagious diseases. It was built in 1885 to prevent the plague epidemic.
Recently, transforming the buildings in the Quarantine Island into a museum has been on the agenda.
Karantina Island (Turkish: Karantina Adası, literally "Quarantine Island") is an island in the Gulf of İzmir, Turkey.
The island is a part of Urla ilçe (district) of İzmir Province at 38°22′26″N 26°47′07″E. Its surface area is 320,000 square metres (3,400,000 sq ft) and its distance to mainland (Karaburun Peninsula of Anatolia) is only 600 metres (2,000 ft).There is an artificial connection between the mainland and the island. The ancient history of the island is related to that of the ancient site Klazomenai. During the 19th century the island was equipped with the up to date medical instruments and it was used as a quarantine island. In 1950, the buildings were restored to be used as a hospital. In 1955, its name was "Sun and Sea Treatment Institute". After the construction of new buildings it was renamed as "Urla Hospital of Orthopedics". In 1986, the hospital was redesigned as a general purpose hospital.
It is planned to open a medical museum on the island.
A center on Karantina Island, facing Urla in the western district of İzmir, is the world’s only protected quarantine station on an island, and it is now waiting to be converted into a museum.
The quarantine station was built almost 150 years ago and was in operation between 1865 and 1950, and was generally used as a way station by French mariners and passengers to and from İzmir in Ottoman times. It was one of the leading health centers of its time, where terminal diseases such as plague and typhoid were sought to be neutralized.contagious diseases were common in 1800s, and plague and typhoid were common in Europe. The Ottomans therefore built the quarantine station in Urla in 1865 for those who arrived in Anatolia by sea, with a boat allocated for contagious disease suspects, who were sterilized and taken under treatment without coming in contact with other people.
When the center was still in operation, ships from abroad anchored one mile offshore and a doctor, the station’s director and a registering director headed out to the waiting ship to register the passengers.
Those found to be carrying a contagious disease were taken to separate boats and kept in patient rooms called “isolation pavilions.” Through a specially-built rail system, passengers’ belongings were taken to the sterilization sections of the quarantine station, while passengers were also taken to a shower area with new towels, loincloths and sabots.
Their clothes were disinfected in the sterilization unit. After having a shower, they were hosted in special places and offered food and drink. Next came a doctor’s examination. If nobody on the ship was ill, the passengers were permitted to leave after the check. If even one passenger was ill, however, all passengers were kept in guest houses until the patient got better or died, during which time the health of the other passengers was constantly monitored.
Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon
La Quarantaine, which is colloquially referred to as Karantina (Arabic: الكرنتينا) and sometimes spelled Quarantina, is a predominantly low-income, mixed-use residential, commercial, and semi-industrial neighborhood in northeastern Beirut. The neighborhood lies east of the Port of Beirut, which also encircles it from the north, west of the Beirut River and north of the Charles Helou highway and the Achrafieh district of Beirut.
The neighborhood gets its name from the French term, La Quarantaine, because it was the location where a lazaretto for travellers was built at the request of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Governor of Egypt, who controlled Syria and Beirut in 1831. The lazaretto was to be managed by a committee made up of the Austrian, Danish, French, Greek, and Spanish consuls.
Karantina is no stranger to refugees, in 1915, fleeing
persecution Ottoman Armenians settled on the extremities of east Beirut, just below the port where they were
quarantined in makeshift tents, hence the name Karantina . The land was mostly
made up of marshes, it had a small Bedouin population and a slaughterhouse
which you can still find there today but has been shifted to the eastern banks
of the Beirut river.
A second wave of Armenians landed on the shores of
Karantina in 1922 as part of the Treaty of Ankara which meant French
authorities would cede control of Cilicia to Turkey in exchange for its
approval of French control of Greater Syria
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