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. |
