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notice · 1837

Quarantine ordered on the immigrant ship Lady Macnaghten at Spring Cove, Port Jackson, after a contagious 'Contagious Fever' (typhus) outbreak on board - one of the colony's worst immigrant-ship fever disasters of 1837; yellow flag flying, all communication with ship and quarantine ground prohibited under the Quarantine Act.

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QUARANTINE. WHEREAS, by an Act of the GOVERNOR and Council of New South Wales, …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 266, 8 March 1837.