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Wait ... that - now that you think about it for more than a second, that doesn't make any sense.
For the sake of argument, say that everyone in the house did feel sick, on account of them all being exposed to the Strangeness and being inside of the envelope of a ranged remediation cast that causes marked physiological responses in living targets. So sick that instead of sending for a chirurgeon or a healer of some stripe or other, they - to a man - decided to leave to check into a house of healing. As soon as they got outside of the envelope of the cast, they would have felt better - not perfect, of course, there might have been some haze or malaise from the onset of the Strangeness they had been exposed to. But better. Markedly better. So then ... once they felt better, they ... continued on to the house of healing? No, that doesn't make sense. Even the better run healing-houses for the wealthy are not places where you'd want to go unless you absolutely had to, what with all of the black humors around those places.
If you were in their shoes, and only knew what they knew ... then you would probably shrug it off, and return to the house. Only to find that as soon as you stepped through the threshold, you felt sick again. Which would be terrifying - any reasonable person would assume that there had been some sort of Judgement passed on the house and its occupants. So then, the faithless among them would hire out rooms in public houses - or leave the Mount earlier than planned - while the faithful would head to the nearest temple, seeking sanctuary and absolution. That makes a lot more sense ... except for one point. If there is some credible evidence of a Judgement - which the attestation of an entire household would be considered - then there would be someone sent to see if there was anything here to Witness. As dangerous as being around Judgements - or the Judged for that matter - can be, they are also rare opportunities to see the Working Hand of the Patternmaker in the Realm of Shadows. Priests and the most faithful of the Covenant will go to the Judged or the site of a Judgement to Witness - treating these places or persons as fonts for a dangerous, potentially lethal worship. And once the Judgement passes - assuming that it does pass - in the cases that it was tied to a specific location, and it is safe to do so, it is common practice for Temples to be built on the sites, to commemorate the Work, and allow safer veneration of it.
So if a bunch of faithful turned up at a Temple, believing that they were suffering from some Judgement that was tied to the physical location of Aldoin's house, then the Temple would take immediate interest into this place. They wouldn't let it stand empty, not until they were sure that there wasn't anything here beyond the typical permutations of the Pattern. Is it possible that they already decided that there wasn't anything going on here beside some odd illness? No, that doesn't make sense either.
