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Quarantine Station, Manly c1870s

Quarantine Station, Manly c1870s

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State Library of New South Wales

[a280009 / PXA 969, 36]

(Mitchell Library)

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Epidemics

From the new European diseases that devastated Sydney's Aboriginal people in the eighteenth century, through subsequent epidemics of measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, influenza and HIV, Sydney has faced major threats from epidemic disease. Religion, media, and public health responses influenced the degree of panic and scapegoating that took place, though effective treatments were not in place until well into the twentieth century.

Epidemics

Immigration

Quarantine

Manly

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Peninsular suburb at the northern entrance to Port Jackson, which faces both the harbour and the ocean. Its name comes from the 'confidence and manly behaviour' of the Aboriginal people encountered there by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788.

North Head

Sandstone headland on the northern edge of Sydney Harbour.

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Quarantine Station

Former quarantine station at North Head which was the main arrival point for immigrants from 1832 to 1984, now home to a hotel, conference complex and restaurant.

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