Impression Bay - convict probation station to civil quarantine station: fever ship Persian, 1857 | Richard Lord | 1992 [USED – SC]

Impression Bay, on the Tasman Peninsula, began as a convict probation station before being repurposed as a civil quarantine station. In 1857, the immigrant ship Persian arrived carrying typhus fever, and this book tells the story of that voyage and the quarantine that followed at Impression Bay — drawing on the resulting Parliamentary Enquiry into the "Fever Immigrant Ship Persian," medical notes on the typhus outbreak, and accounts of the final phase of the immigrants' quarantine and the deaths that occurred there. Also documents the remaining headstones at the Impression Bay cemetery, as recorded in a April 1977 survey, and draws on original source material held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover book
• Published 1992, Now out of print.
• 117-pages, indexed

CONDITION

Used but generally very good condition. Some marks on the back cover.

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