North Head Quarantine Station

The former Quarantine Station North Head, also known as Sydney Quarantine Station, includes a number of listed buildings on the north side of Sydney Harbour on the headland North Head in Manly, a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. Today ( 2011) used the quarantine station as a hotel.

History

Quarantine stations existed in every colony of Australia to the spread of smallpox, cholera and Spanish influenza, bubonic plague and other infectious diseases to prevent. For the first time the convict ship Bussorah Merchant infected with smallpox people were quarantined in August 1828. They were housed at the Spring Cove on the western side of North Head in tents and guarded by the military. On August 14, 1832, the entire area of 69 ha of John Burke, the Governor of New South Wales, declared a quarantine area and remained there until 29 February 1984. Fixed buildings were built in 1837.

One of the early leader of the station was Dr. James Stuart (1802-1842), an entomologist and painter.

Not only immigrants but also returning soldiers of both world wars, prisoners, the homeless after the devastating cyclone Tracy in 1975 and Vietnam refugees passed the quarantine station. Prior to closing a total of 580 ships with 13,000 passengers were placed 40 days in quarantine. The quarantine station was incorporated into the Sydney Harbour National Park in 1984 and is now a hotel Q- station with restaurant, function and conference center and visited by tourists, who can also take part in guided tours, which presented ghosts notion of deceased employees and patients in the quarantine station be.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the then station manager Herb Lavaring collected ( 1917-1998 ) materials of the station, such as documents, medical instruments, tools and other utensils, also he secured rock engravings and grave stones on North Head.

The Sydney Harbour Federation Trust manages North Head and the Quartänestation since 2001 and has leased the building as a hotel for the duration of 21 years. The hotel took in 2006 to its operation. Furthermore, the Australian Institute of Police Management is located in the building complex in the former sailor quarters, where infected sailors had to stay before the development of modern antibiotics. The quarantine station including other buildings, roads, walls and cemeteries have been added to the Australian National Heritage List.