1919 Spanish flu, quarantine + Point Nepean...

Aerial view of the Point Nepean Quarantine station on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919.
12 temporary wooden bunkhouses (shown above, bottom left) were erected at the site, to cater for passengers, many of them soldiers returning from WWI, who showed symptoms.
At the peak of the pandemic, several thousand people were interred at the station.
Around the turn of the century, a modern disinfecting station, had been built.
The disinfecting equipment was state of the art,
and consisted of a large scale ‘oven’ and rail delivery system.
Patients would be sent to the disinfecting area on first arrival,
discard their clothes and luggage, which would then be run through the oven and heated,
to destroy bacteria.
These improvements were the last undertaken by the state government;
in October 1901, Australia’s new Federal government would assume control of the facility.
Source: The Museum of Lost Things

I took the following photos in January 2012...






The photos below I took in September 2013