North Head Quarantine Station
The former Quarantine Station North Head , also known as Sydney Quarantine Station , comprises a series of listed buildings on the north side of Sydney Harbor on the North Head headland , near Manly , a district of Sydney in New South Wales , Australia . Today (2011) the quarantine station is used as a hotel.
history
There were quarantine stations in every colony in Australia to prevent the spread of smallpox , cholera , Spanish flu , bubonic plague and other contagious diseases. The convict ship Bussorah Merchant with people infected with smallpox was put into quarantine for the first time in August 1828 . They were housed in tents at Spring Cove on the west side of North Head and guarded by the military. On August 14, 1832, the entire 69 hectare area was declared a quarantine area by John Burke, the governor of New South Wales , and remained so until February 29, 1984. Permanent buildings were constructed in 1837.
One of the early leaders of the ward was Dr. James Stuart (1802–1842) an entomologist and painter.
Not only immigrants, but also returning soldiers from both World Wars, prisoners of war, homeless people after the devastating Cyclone Tracy in 1975 and Vietnam refugees passed the quarantine station. Before their closure, a total of 580 ships with 13,000 passengers were quarantined for 40 days. The quarantine station was incorporated into the Sydney Harbor National Park in 1984 and is now operated as the Hotel Q-Station with a restaurant, event and conference center and visited by tourists, who can also take part in guided tours during which ghosts of deceased employees and sick people of the quarantine station are presented become.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the then station manager Herb Lavaring (1917–1998) collected materials from the station, such as documents, medical instruments, tools and other utensils, and he also secured rock engravings and tombstones on North Head .
The Sydney Harbor Federation Trust has managed North Head and the quarantine station since 2001 and has leased the building as a hotel for a period of 21 years. The hotel started operating in 2006. The building complex also houses the Australian Institute of Police Management in the former seaman's quarters, where infected seafarers had to stay before the development of modern antibiotics. The quarantine station, including other buildings, streets, walls and cemeteries, have been added to the Australian National Heritage List .
literature
- Quarantine Station: Sydney Harbor National Park Conservation Plan , NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service 1997, press
- Quarantine Station: Sydney Harbor National Park Open Day , 1999, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Quarantine: Counting the Costs, Health, Journal of the Australian Department of Health , Volume 25, No. 1, March 1975, pp. 31-35
Individual evidence
- ↑ 4234 & singleRecord = T recordsearch.naa.gov.au : Quarantine Station, North Head [New South Wales] , in English, accessed October 11, 2011
- ↑ castleofspirits.com ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Quaranstaine Station North Head (1828.1984) , in English, accessed October 11, 2011
- ↑ a b environment.gov.au : North Head - Sydney more information , in English, accessed October 11, 2011
- ↑ environment.nsw.gov.au : Quarantine Station North Head , in English, accessed October 11, 2011
Coordinates: 33 ° 48 ′ 53.2 ″ S , 151 ° 17 ′ 17.2 ″ E