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The early days of a NSW rural hospital

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This newsletter article explores how life in the bush in rural New South Wales during the 19th century could be insecure, with risks from accidents, illness, natural disasters, and disease. Medical care was at best basic, and no medical help could often mean the difference between life and death. In the small market town of Camden, NSW, which served as the centre of a dairying region, a scarlet fever outbreak in 1899 created community anxiety. A local dairyman's farm was quarantined, and the family had no reliable income, which created much hardship.

Source: Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

DOI: 10.17613/j2sm4-ay559

Author: Willis, Ian

Language: English

Topic: History of Medicine and Tropical Health

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7082057181

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