proclamation · 1856
Two cholera-quarantine measures, Melbourne, 4 June 1856: a Proclamation by Major-General Edward Macarthur (administering the Government after Hotham's death), countersigned by Chief Secretary William C. Haines, ordering quarantine of all vessels arriving from Rio de Janeiro with Asiatic Cholera; and a Chief Secretary's notice placing the immigrant ship OCEAN MONARCH (cholera, several deaths, on her passage Rio de Janeiro to Port Phillip) under 30 days' quarantine at the Point Nepean station.
W HEREAS it has been represented to the Government that Asiatic Cholera has appeared on board of a vessel recently …
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EventAsiatic Cholera
PlaceRio Janeiro
OfficialMACARTHUR
PlaceColony of Victoria
ShipOCEAN MONARCH
OfficialWILLIAM C. IIAINES
PlaceMelbourne
OfficialEdward Macarthur
OfficialWILLIAM C. ILAINES
PlacePort Phillip
Victoria Government Gazette, No. 63, 3 June 1856.
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