Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
Peter Johnson
Experience the heartbreaking true story of the forgotten immigrants who arrived on Vancouver Island in the late 19th century, only to be struck by illness and abandoned by an unsympathetic government. Quarantined explores the struggles to establish a federally funded quarantine station, and serves as a chilling reminder of the dangers of neglect towards national health-care issues affecting the poor and disenfranchised. A cautionary tale with just as much relevance today as it did 100 years ago.
Fecha de publicación
2013-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
2013-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
Calificación de Goodreads
3.69
ISBN
9781927527313
Recomendaciones
1
Recomendaciones
2020-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story. Leprosy, smallpox, and meningitis are a few of the drivers of the narrative. It continues to startle me how much pandemics and quarantines are a kind of lost history, though they are extremely prominent in 19th century fiction. – fuente