Woodman Point Quarantine Station

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Woodman Point Quarantine Station 1886 - 1979

 

Number of deaths

Time Frame

Died

Cremated

Buried

Re-interred

Bubonic Plague

27

1901-1906

(23) Metro Area
(4) WPQS

(26 WPQS
(1) Unknown

(7) Unknown
(4) Fremantle
(1) Guildford
(14) WPQS
(1) Unknown

(1) Sydney NSW

Diabetes

1

1916

Perth Hospital

(1) WPQS

(1) WPQS

-

Leprosy (1)

3

1898-1906

(1) WPQS
(1) Wooroloo
(1) Unknown

(3) WPQS

(2) WPQS
(1) Unknown

-

Measles / Pneumonia

6

1911-1913

(6) WPQS

-

(6) Fremantle

-

Meningitis

1

1918

Grosvenor Hospital

(1) WPQS

(1) WPQS

-

Pneumonia / Heart Failure

1

1919

(1) WPQS

-

(1) WPQS

-

Pneumonic Influenza

33

1918-1919

(33) WPQS

-

(19) WPQS
(11) East. Rockingham
((2) WPQS
(1) Fremantle

(2) Karrakatta in
January 1920
(17) Karrakatta in
June 1958

Scarlet Fever (2)

Ex."Elderslie"

1885

-

-

-

-

Septic / Pneumonia

1

1912

Private Hospital

(1) WPQS

(1) Fremantle

-

Smallpox (3)

15

1893-1943

(14) WPQS
(1) Died at sea

(13) WPQS
(2) Unknown

(11) WPQS
(1) Fremantle
(2) Unknown

(1) Karrakatta in
June 1958.

Toxaemia

1

1917

(1) Metro Area

(1) WPQS

(1) Karrakatta

-

Tuberculosis

1

1919

(1) Metro Area

(1) WPQS

(1) WPQS

-

Typhoid / Enteric Fever

1

1901

(1) WPQS

(1) WPQS

(1) Karrakatta

-

Venereal Disease (4)

-

1936

-

-

-

-

Whooping Cough (5)

Ex."Anna Robertson"

1852

-

-

-

-
             

Unknown Cause of Death

4

? - 1917

(1) WPQS
(1) Fremantle Hospital
(2) Unknown

(2) Private
(2) WPQS

(1) WPQS
(1) Returned to ship
(2) Unknown

  
             

Leprosy (1): Whereabouts or burial position of ashes unknown

Scarlet Fever (2): Passengers and crew from the vessel "Elderslie", presumed first patients and contacts to use the buildings of the Quarantine Station.

Smallpox (3): William Miller was the first case of the 1893 smallpox epidemic. Fremantle Council objected to WPQS taking Perth victims, claiming it would bring the disease to Fremantle. Although the Fremantle Board of Health later moved that a proportion of WPQS be allocated as a burial ground for smallpox victims, many were buried in a new cemetery at Subiaco. Of 25 cases, 23 were nursed at the tent hospital at Subiaco.
Two Smallpox victims ( 1893 & 1894 ) presumed cremated, but no confirmed reports, and burial position of remains or ashes unknown.

Venereal Disease (4): Quarantine Station log entry dated 23rd April 1936, records 49 persons were accommodated in beach huts at Woodman Point after subsequently being diagnosed with secondary syphilis, rather than smallpox.

Whooping Cough (5: 226 Civilians and Military personnel from the vessel "Anna Robertson" that were originally quarantined on Carnac Island, but then transferred to the beach at Woodman Point because of contaminated drinking water.

Compiled by Earle Seubert

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