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Infectious disease has threatened life and social order throughout human history, inducing deep and pervasive fear. Fairfield Hospital began life in 1890 as a fever hospital, treating the colonists for typhoid, diphtheria, cholera and smallpox. As the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital from 1919, it grappled with epidemics of polio and scarlet fever. The new Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, built in 1948, became one of the world's foremost centres for the research and treatment of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. It was closed in 1996 amid controversy, protest and…mehr

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Infectious disease has threatened life and social order throughout human history, inducing deep and pervasive fear. Fairfield Hospital began life in 1890 as a fever hospital, treating the colonists for typhoid, diphtheria, cholera and smallpox. As the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital from 1919, it grappled with epidemics of polio and scarlet fever. The new Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, built in 1948, became one of the world's foremost centres for the research and treatment of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. It was closed in 1996 amid controversy, protest and distress. The combined expertise of the Fairfield Hospital team is now scattered. But Anderson, in gathering together the fruits of their knowledge, experience and skill, has ensured that the story of a remarkable and much-loved hospital is not lost to us.
Autorenporträt
W. K. Anderson is a freelance historian and a poet. He has a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne and is a Research Associate in the Arts Faculty at Monash University. His books include James Connolly and the Irish Left (2nd edn 1997) and On Western Lands: A History of Hampden Shire (1996).