Interviewer: Yeah, something about your house being like a bathhouse or-something. Speaker: No. Within- in the street here, this- this p-- this street or what I call Slab-Town, there was the quarantine house. Interviewer: Okay. Interviewer 2: (inc)

Speaker: Say if you- if you think about it today, um, but- say if a guy got mumps, or something that was contagious, in a mining camp, what were you going to do with them? You-know, you had to keep them away from- you couldn't leave them in a say, ah, a bunkhouse- Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Where there's the men who worked a-- in the mine and-stuff, eh? So they had what they called a quarantine house. I don't know exactly where it was, but I read about it and it was here in this- this place they called Slab-Town and if somebody was quarantined like if- I don't know if- you- you just don't have that experience of quarantine-

Speaker: ... were quarantined and polio was contagious and they took a li-- ah, th-- a casket in the house and- and put a child in the casket, took him to the grave yard and buried him. It was a t-- it was terrible, terrible thing eh? That's what I meant by quarantine house, that what I was telling Rob, eh? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And ah, and I can remember w-- at that time there was a lot of mumps, eh? It's contagious too, eh? So when you had been diagnosed 'cause when you- you look- you started to look like a chipmunk, eh?