Quarantine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Convict ship ''Surry'', Sydney Harbour, 1814 (typhoid)=== [[File:1814 07 30 Sydney Gazette Surry Quarantine.png|thumb|Quarantine of the convict ship [[Surry (1811 ship)|''Surry'']] on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour in 1814, the first quarantine in Australia]] On 28 July 1814, the convict ship ''[[Surry (1811 ship)|Surry]]'' arrived in Sydney Harbour from England. Forty-six people had died of [[typhoid]] during the voyage, including 36 convicts, and the ship was placed in quarantine on the North Shore. Convicts were landed, and a camp was established in the immediate vicinity of what is now [[Jeffrey Street]] in [[Kirribilli]]. This was the first site in Australia to be used for quarantine purposes.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page7203 |work= The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser |author= Secretary's Office, Sydney |date= 10 September 1814 |title= Government Public Notice, Published by Authority |page=2 |access-date=7 June 2010}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page