The Quarantine Station History pages are largely taken from:

Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean

Conservation Management Plan, Non-Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Volume One: Conservation Management Plan

Prepared for, Point Nepean Community Trust, September 2008

by LOVELL CHEN Architects & Heritage Consultants

Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean

Conservation Management Plan – Endnotes

Endnotes

This history has been prepared using several documents as its basis. These include: J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969; Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984; Shane M Power, Stuart Robinson and Allen Trumbull-Ward, Analysis of the heritage significance of the Commonwealth holdings at Point Nepean / Portsea: Environmental Report, 1985; and HLCD as part of HLA Envirosciences Defence Environmental Panel, Norris Barracks / Former Quarantine Station, Portsea, Conservation Management Plan July 2002. New material has been incorporated to illuminate aspects of the history of the Quarantine Station comprising extracts from original source material including government documents and contemporary accounts in both manuscript and newspaper form.

10 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 21.

11 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 21.

12 Dispatch from Captain Ferguson to Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe, 9 November 1852, quoted in J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 27.

13 Quoted in J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 22.

14 Dispatch from Captain Ferguson to Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe, 9 November 1852, quoted in J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 23-25.

15 Quoted in Shane Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 88.

16 Shane Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 88 – in note 17, Power comments that ‘Prior to the 1860s documentary sources refer to “Sanitary Station”. After this period the term “Sanatory” is used. The reason for this change of terminology/spelling has not been investigated. “Quarantine Station” seems to have been used from the 1880s’.

17 Argus, 25 April 1853, quoted in Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 89.

18 William J Walker, Log Book, 1852-53, MS 12473, Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria.

19 Letter from Dr Reed Surgeon Superintendent to Chief Medical Officer, National Archives of Australia, B. 3751 X2, quoted in Shane Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 90.

20 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 45-46.

21 Close examination of handwritten annotations to the drawing indicate that the works to the stone store involved replacement of roofing and all rainwater goods.

22 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 37.

23 William J Walker, Log Book, 1852-53, MS 12473, Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria.

24 William J Walker, Log Book, 1852-53, MS 12473, Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria.

25 Dispatch from Captain Ferguson to Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe, 9 November 1852, quoted in J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 23-25.

26 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1857, No. 15, Legislative Assembly. Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1857-58.

27 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 51-53.

28 A detail drawing for the construction of the Administration building dated February 1916 and held in the National Archives of Australia is annotated ‘Walls of old portion of building to be carried up to additional height required in brickwork’ indicating that the former storekeeper’s residence forms the nucleus of the present-day Administration building. Refer National Archives of Australia CA3168, Series B3434.

29 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 52.

30 Details taken from the Summary contract books, VPRS 972, Public Record Office of Victoria.

31 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1858, No. 37, Legislative Assembly. Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1858-59.

32 The Tudor departed Liverpool on 22 March and did not arrive into Melbourne until 17 July 1859. Biddle Books of Shipping Transactions for 1859, State Library of Victoria.

33 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1859, No. 36, Legislative Assembly. Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1859-60.

34 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1859, No. 36, Legislative Assembly. Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1859-60.

35 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1859, No. 36, Legislative Assembly. Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1859-60.

36 The Argus, 3 May 1860, p. 4.

37 The Argus, 26 February 1864, p. 5.

38 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1864, No. 35, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1864-65. A contract for the heating closet/disinfecting apparatus was awarded to Enoch Chambers on 30 December 1863 to the value of £703.00. However instructions were to only carry out work – at least initially to the value of only £449.00 – with the remaining work to be undertaken in the 1864-65 financial year.

39 Votes and Proceedings, 12th March 1863, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1862-63.

40 Royal Commission 1865, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1864-65, cited in Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 92.

41 Report of Commission on the Sanatory Station, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1864-65.

42 Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 92.

43 Richard Heales (1821-1864) was Premier of Victoria from November 1860 to November 1861.

44 Remarks on the Report of the Board Appointed to Enquire into the Quarantine Regulations and in regard to the “Golden Empire”; treatise by Dr W McCrea, Chief Medical Officer, 23 April 1865, No. 35, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1864-65.

45 Remarks on the Report of the Board Appointed to Enquire into the Quarantine Regulations and in regard to the “Golden Empire”; treatise by Dr W McCrea, Chief Medical Officer, 23 April 1865, No. 35, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1864-65.

46 Royal Commission 1865, Legislative Assembly. Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1864-65, cited in Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 92.

47 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 58.

48 Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 96.

49 Details taken from the Summary contract books, VPRS 972, Public Record Office of Victoria.

50 This item was located in correspondence files held by the National Archives of Australia. Reference CA3168, Series B3169, Sanatory Station – Portsea – Quarantine, general 1873 & 1874. The last page of the hand-written inventory is annotated with ‘Total £3500’ and ‘JW’ in a different coloured ink along with the date ‘1/9/75’. Although the last number is actually somewhat indistinct – it could be part of a 3 or a 5 – it is more likely to be a ‘5’ given that James Walker, the Superintendent at the time produced a substantial Report on the Sanatory Station for the year 1875 to the Legislative Assembly (see Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1875-76). His annotation seems to have been the finalization of a report compiled in the latter half of 1873, around the time that the hospitals were undergoing repairs. For some unknown reason the drying house erected in 1864 is not listed on the inventory but is shown on the formal report.

51 This may have been based on the earlier 1873 inventory.

52 This is the stone store which commenced construction in 1853, after the “Ticonderoga” incident.

53 This is the timber hospital building, which commenced construction in 1853, and superseded by the five stone hospital buildings.

54 Chief Medical Officer, Report on the Sanitary Station for the year 1875, No. 9, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1875-76.

55 The industrial school movement was formalized in Britain with the passing of the Industrial Schools Act of 1868. Schools were soon established in Australia to house and educate neglected and orphaned children. The school at Princes Bridge, also known as the Immigrants’ Aid Society ceased operation in 1914.

56 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 58-59.

57 Royal Commission 1872, Legislative Assembly, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1872, cited in Shane M Power, Maritime Quarantine and the Former Quarantine Station, Point Nepean: an Assessment of Cultural Significance, 1984, p. 93.

58 H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 64.

59 The Australasian Sketcher, 28 January 1882, p. 23.

60 Letter from James Walker, Superintendent, to the Chief Medical Officer, 25 May 1874, National Archives of Australia, CA3168, Series B3169, Sanatory Station – Portsea – Quarantine, general 1873 & 1874.

61 The Argus, Monday 26 April, 1897, quoted in J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 77.

62 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 76-84.

63 Shane M Power, Stuart Robinson and Allen Trumbull-Ward, Analysis of the heritage significance of the Commonwealth holdings at Point Nepean / Portsea: Environmental Report, 1985, p. 60.

64 Brick had been extensively used since the 1880s by the Victorian Railways with the Newport Railway workshops (1886) and Goods Shed no. 2 (1889-1890) being examples. The Public Works Department subsequently adopted the material and the Melbourne City Baths (1903-04), with which the bath house bears some similarity in roof form, and the former Melbourne Hospital, later the Queen Victoria Hospital (1911-12) are examples of its use.

65 Details taken from the Summary contract books, VPRS 972, Public Record Office of Victoria.

66 The Australasian, 16 January 1909, p. 149.

67 The Commonwealth is registered as the proprietor of the land which is under the Torrens system and contained in Crown Grant Volume 5758 Folio 598. The land was transferred to the Commonwealth with effect from 1 March 1901 with the Crown Grant being signed on 15 December 1931.

68 A drawing housed in the National Archives of Australia dated February 1916 is annotated ‘walls of old portion of building to be carried up to additional height required in brickwork’. Refer National Archives of Australia, CA3168, Series B3434.

69 Peter Curson and Kevin McCracken, ‘An Australian perspective of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic’, in NSW Health Bulletin, Vol.17, no. 7-8, July-August 2006, pp. 103-107.

70 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, p. 86.

71 Citation, Commonwealth Heritage List, ‘Point Nepean Quarantine Station (former)’, identifier 105611.

72 Citation, Commonwealth Heritage List, ‘Point Nepean Quarantine Station (former)’, identifier 105611.

73 Citation from the Australian Heritage Places Inventory, ‘Point Nepean Defence Sites and Quarantine Station Area’, identifier 105680.

74 Citation, Commonwealth Heritage List, ‘Point Nepean Quarantine Station (former)’, identifier 105611.

75 J H Welch, Hell to Health: the History of Quarantine at Port Phillip Heads 1852-1966, 1969, pp. 84-86.

76 HLCD as part of HLA Envirosciences Defence Environmental Panel, Norris Barracks / Former Quarantine Station, Portsea, Conservation Management Plan July 2002, pp. 28-29.

77 HLCD as part of HLA Envirosciences Defence Environmental Panel, Norris Barracks / Former Quarantine Station, Portsea, Conservation Management Plan July 2002, p. 30.

78 HLCD as part of HLA Envirosciences Defence Environmental Panel, Norris Barracks / Former Quarantine Station, Portsea, Conservation Management Plan July 2002, p. 33.