Sandhurst responses to infectious diseases.

Presented by Desiree Petitt-Keating, Bendigo Regional Archives Centre (BRAC).

While it’s said that history never repeats, responses to an outbreak of smallpox in 1870’s Bendigo are surprisingly similar to those for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Using BRAC collections, this presentation explores ways the media, municipality and public responded to the presence of infectious diseases both then and now.

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