Year of disasters - Brisbane 1864 : fire, plague, cyclone and flood / Duncan Richardson
- Bib ID:
- 7380716
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Richardson, Duncan, 1959-, author
- Description:
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- Brisbane, [Queensland] : Pula Press, [2017]
- ©2017
- 252 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps , facsimiles ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781326884383 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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 would doom them to weeks under canvas on an island in Moreton Bay. To fight the flood, there were only government loans and hope...
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-251) and index.
- Subject:
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- Disasters -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History -- 1851-1891
- Natural disasters -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History -- 1851-1891
- Fires -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History -- 1851-1891
- Floods -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History -- 1851-1891
- Cyclones -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History -- 1851-1891
- Disease management -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History -- 1851-1891
- Brisbane (Qld.) -- History -- 1851-1891
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- Year of disaster : Brisbane 1864
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2017
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