What is "sickrooms"

Usage examples of "sickrooms".

Since his arrival at Winding Circle, he had worked in sickrooms in three epidemics and a border war, but he'd always been under the guidance of Rosethorn and experienced healers.

People gathered together to die in sickrooms, faces covered in sweat, bodies tormented by incurable swellings.

This queer boy, who was sometimes so much older than his years, not only trusted him, but was depending on him too, confident that he, who had all his life evaded irksome responsibilities, had seldom exerted himself on another’s behalf, and knew nothing about sickrooms, was competent to take charge of Felix, himself, the doctor, and even the hostile Miss Judbrook.

Like most Detinans (and all the more because he was a healer's son), Bell had spent time in sickrooms that held people who were going to die.