deaconess-house

Noun

deaconess-house (plural deaconess-houses)

1. (historical) A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc.
   • At the age of twenty (in June 1905), I began working as a probationer nurse at the Halle Deaconess House, as I had now reached the required age.1999, Emmy Arnold, A Joyful Pilgrimage, Plough Publishing, published 1999, page 8
   • Some years later, the famine of 1867 gave a flying start to the deaconess-house in Helsinki. Aurora Karamsin was to fulfill two goals, one was to meet the need for care for the poor and sick, the other was to provide women, including those from the educated classes, with an opportunity for...1993, Marianne Tallberg, “Nursing and Medical Care in Finland”, in Nursing History Review, University of Pennsylvania, page 175