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ISBN | 9780859058209 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2021 |
Bib. Info | v, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm |
Categories | DU - Oceania (South Seas) |
Product Weight | 725 gms. |
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eville Green's contribution to the knowledge of Aboriginal tradition and welfare is unparalleled. 1854. Perth. Turning back the clock to the 25th year of British settlement when the Aborigines of Australia had no protection against the majority of introduced diseases and thousands died in the southwest regions of Western Australia. In 1854 about 300 Aborigines of the Perth and Fremantle region were vaccinated against smallpox, and became subject to violent attacks of influenza, intermittent fever, and such complaints to which they were formerly strangers. By October 1860 measles, was reported to have caused the death of 60 Aborigines at Albany, and by December the death toll had reached 200 and was spreading beyond the Albany region. The disease caused a widespread desolation, extending from tribe to tribe with most fatal consequences. In the northern regions of Western Australia the Indigenous population was equally vulnerable to introduced diseases and in 1934, a recorded 150 men, women and children died in the Fitzroy River Valley. Such is the truth of the ongoing impact of foreign diseases on Indigenous people and only the cases in contact with European Australians were recorded during that period.