Ships known to have been quarantined at Peel Island between 1873 and 1896::
Lammershagen(quarantined1873, January 8)
Typhoid, at least 7 deaths:
Kristine Dreseth, 30yrs
Wilhelmine Helmholz, 14yrs
Johannes Johannessen, 21 yrs
Wilhelmina Milenovski, 2 yrs
Emil Oberlie, 16 yrs
Sorrn Christiansen Sorensen, 18 yrs
Friedeburg(quarantined 1873)
Scarlet Fever
One death on Peel:
Matilda Kluck, 6 yrs (from ulcerated bowels and chronic diarrhoea)
Bobtail Nag, fromSolomon Islands (quarantined 1875, December 13-24)
Dysentery, one death between December 15-24
Gauntlet, from London (quarantined 1875, December 23)
Typhoid fever
Gazelle(German warship) (quarantined 1876, January 1)
? Disease. Maybe around 10 deaths, with graves made up and head-boards with suitable inscriptions placed at each one, unlike many of the later graves from English ships.
Indus, from Hervey Bay (quarantined 1876, March 9)
Typhoid fever.
Western Monarch,from Gravesend (quarantined 1876, March 16 until March 24 when pratique granted for most passengers)
Typhoid fever
2 deaths, one from Typhoid fever
Brisbane(+ the government ship Kate) (quarantined 1876, March 26-April 12)
Smallpox
Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor Designate for the colony of Queensland, was required to enter quarantine, as were all passengers of the Brisbane, though quarters were arranged for him on the government paddle yacht Kate.
Woodlark (quarantined1877, late January or early February)
Typhus
Normanby, (quarantined 1877, April 25-28)
Came via Hong Kong, which had been declared an infected port – therefore automatic quarantining.
Charles Dickens, from Hamburg (quarantined 1877, July 19 (approx.)-September)
Measles, typhoid fever amongst other diseases, 18 patients in quarantine, approximately 8 deaths including: Platen, boy, Platen, girl, Idie Stephan.
Windsor Castle, from Gravesend (quarantined 1877, September 16-November 10)
Typhoid fever
Roxburgshire,fromGreenock (quarantined 1877, October 11- November 16)
Scarlet fever
Western Monarch (quarantined 1878)
Typhoid fever
Bowen(quarantined 1878)
Lammershagen, fromHamburg (quarantined 1878, August 6 – 10)
Friedeburg,fromHamburg, via Rio (quarantined 1878, October 17 -November 27)
Typhoid fever
Scottish Admiral (quarantined1878, October 20-30)
Typhoid fever
Clara(quarantined 1879, January)
Typhoid fever
Fritz Reuter, fromHamburg (quarantined 1879, January 20)
Typhoid fever
Normanby(quarantined 1879, January 30)
Somerset (quarantined 1879, February 12)
Smallpox. Actually quarantined at the four fathoms hold (off Green Island in Moreton Bay) rather than on Peel Island, possibly because of the crowded conditions already on the island.
Southesk,from Greenock (quarantined 1882, May 13 until late May)
Measles, Typhoid Fever and 4 deaths from Whooping Cough:
James Thomas McKenzie, 18 months
Robert Rodgers, 2 yrs
Margaret Jeffrey, 9 months
Elizabeth Annie Edwards, 2 months
Caroline (quarantined1882, May (approx.) 6-9)
Duke of Westminster(quarantined 1883, September)
Smallpox, at least one death
Western Monarch,from Liverpool (quarantined 1883, October 2-14 (approx.)
Fever
Shannon (quarantined1884, March 16 Mar for approximately one week)
Scarlet Fever
Crown of Aragon (quarantined1884, July (?)-August 13)
Scarlet Fever
ExLy-ee-moon (quarantined1885, February)
Smallpox, passenger off Ly-ee-moon quarantined as a smallpox contact
Dorunda,fromLondon via Port Said, Batavia (quarantined 1885, December 19 – 1886, January 9)
Cholera, possibly 6 deaths:
John Blow, 19 yrs
Cornelius Daly, 60 yrs
Bodil Marie Klemmensen, 52 yrs
Anne M Pedersen, 22 yrs
Catrine Marie Sunstrup, 47 yrs
John Westwood, 32 yrs
Khandalla (quarantined1886, April 24 (approx.)
Merkara,from London via Malta, Port Said, Batavia (quarantined 1887, January 10)
Elizabeth Brown Wilson, 17 yrs (T)
Typhoid fever, TB
Mary Isabella Wilson, 13 yrs (TB)
GoalparafromPlymouth (quarantined 1887, January 7)
Enteritis
Bulimba(quarantined1888, January 14 (?)
Duke of Argyll (quarantined 1888, August-September 13)
Measles,1 death?
Taroba (quarantined1889, January)
Buninyong, from New South Wales (quarantined 1892, June 21 or 22- early July
Smallpox – passenger originally off the Oroyafrom London, transshipped in Melbourne.
Thomas James Ives, 32, professional singer from Islington London
Duke of Devonshire (quarantined1896, November)
Smallpox
List compiled by research undertaken by Peter Ludlow, Rod McLeod, Gabrielle van Willigen
Sources of information include:
- Queensland Government Gazette
- The Week – weekly newspaper magazine published by The Telegraph, starting 1876
- The Brisbane Courier, one of Brisbane’s early daily newspapers
- Details from family records of some of the people quarantined on Peel Island, communicated to Peter Ludlow.
- Wiburd C R 1945 Notes on the History of Maritime Quarantine in Queensland, 19th Century Historical Society of Queensland Inc. Journal Vol 3, No 5. December 1945 pp 369 – 383
- Jan Macintyre with material supplied by Eric and Rosemary Kopittke and Les Moreland.
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