For 30 years after 1863, Quarantine Island in Otago Harbour was used to house people who arrived on board ship with infectious diseases. The hospital buildings can be seen in this 1880 image.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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1/2-003221; G
Photograph by David Alexander De Maus
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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