The Saddest Chapter

by Linda Rossow

In Brief :
128 pages, 153 mm x 235 mm, Hard cover, Section sewn
The Black Death came to Queensland through the immigrant port of Maryborough in Queensland in 1905. This is the story of how it was contained and eliminated, and especially of the heroism of two nurses who quarantined themselves with the victims, and died with them. ISBN 978-1876344627

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Overview:

In May of 1905, Maryborough was under siege from the Black Death. The disease took hold of the city for only fifteen days but in that time, it claimed eight lives.
The victims were five neglected children from one family, a kindly neighbour who assisted the desperate family by laying out the corpse of the first victim, and two nurses who undertook a most extraordinary task.
Knowing that they and their charges faced certain death, these two brave young women barricaded themselves in a ward of the Base Hospital and allowed no-one to enter and no-one to leave. Their selfless act stopped the plague from spreading any further and saved the city, though their role in this tragedy remains largely unacknowledged.
This book is in honour of those who gave their lives to save so many more. Their deeds, though disguised as ‘duty’ are no less deserving of honour than those who fought on the battlefields.

The Saddest Chapter was launched in Maryborough at the historic Maryborough Family History Rooms on Wednesday 17th June 2009.

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