Author: Duncan Richardson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326884387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Three major fires, a flood, a cyclone and an outbreak of typoid. To fight fire, there were buckets, chains and puddles. To fight disease, there was a quarantine system relying on ships' doctors and captains, who knew that infection whould doom them to weeks under canvas on an island in Moreton Bay. To fight the food, there were only government loans and hope ...