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Main Title: Gold and typhoid : two fevers : a social history of Western Australia, 1891-1900 / Vera Whittington.
Author: Whittington, Vera.
Imprint: Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1988.
Collation: xxv, 455 p. : ill., maps, ports., paperback ; 24 cm.
Subject: Gold mines and mining
Typhoid fever
Western Australia
Coolgardie (WA)
ISBN: 0855642750 (pbk.) : 0855642742 :
Notes:
Contents include: Dazzling gold (Coolgardie) p29. Raging epidemic (Coolgardie) p71. Horses, thirst and fever strikes (Woolgangie, Boorabbin and Bulla Bulling) p98. Railway euphoria (Coolgardie) p120. The old camp celebrates and mourns (Coolgardie) p149. The birth and growth of the Golden Mile (Kalgoorlie, Boulder and outlying centres) p190. Twin towns – twin fevers (Cue, Day Dawn and outlying centres) p240. The fever-cursed post office (Menzies and outlying centres) p277. Springboard and refuge (York / Northam, Southern Cross, Roebourne / Geraldton, Albany / Esperance / Norseman, Fremantle) p309. The fair city of Perth (the role of the capital) p335.

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 423-429.
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Non-Fiction Main Library 994.1 WHI Available


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