Series:
Research Notes and Correspondence about the History of Tasmanian Quarantine Stations, Compiled at the Mount Pleasant Veterinarian Laboratory in Kings Meadows.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
07 Jun 1984
End Date:
23 Jun 1997
Creating Agency:
Department of Agriculture (2) (TA370) | 01 Jan 1911 | 31 Dec 1989 |
Department of Primary Industry (TA903) | 17 Jul 1989 | 18 Feb 1992 |
Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Energy (TA986) | 18 Feb 1992 | 03 Feb 1993 |
Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries (TA1095) | 03 Feb 1993 | 18 Sep 1998 |
Series notes:
Research notes and correspondence about the history of Tasmanian quarantine stations, compiled at the Mount Pleasant Veterinarian Laboratory in Kings Meadows.
This file includes correspondence with members of the public who were interested in either employees of the quarantine stations or people who died from a Smallpox outbreak in 1903. Victims of this Smallpox outbreak were interned and also buried in the property now occupied by the Kings Meadows quarantine station. The establishment was originally called Verulam.
The file includes research conducted into the history of animal quarantine in Tasmania, notes on the Smallpox victim's graves at Kings Meadows and photos of the gravestones.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
None
Information Sources:
"Smallpox in Launceston, 1887 and 1903" by Michael Roe. Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers, Vol. 23 No. 4, 1976. ;;;;Materials within the series itself.
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