| Essex Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Cat Island, Salem, Massachusetts, United States |
| Coordinates | 42°30′45.59″N 70°48′54.22″W / 42.5126639°N 70.8150611°W |
| Organization | |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Smallpox |
| History | |
| Construction started | 1773 |
| Opened | 1773 |
| Closed | 1774 |
| Demolished | 1774 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |
The Essex Hospital was a privately built smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island (now Children's Island) where many people were effectively inoculated against smallpox in 1773–1774. About a year after it opened, it was burned to the ground by paranoid and angry townspeople of Marblehead, Massachusetts.