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Farewell, Black Lion of Moulmein: Old compound of Communicable Disease Centre closes
Shutters come down on facility that sheltered infectious disease patients for 105 years
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Neo Xiaobin Executive Photojournalist, Neo Xiaobin
From smallpox, plague, diphtheria, typhoid, cholera and malaria in the early 1900s, to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Nipah virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and the threats of a flu pandemic in recent years, the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) has been through them all.
After being at the forefront of fighting major infectious diseases in Singapore for more than a century, the gates of the old compound located in Moulmein Road finally closed as operations ceased last Thursday.
