History | Revisiting the Hunter's forgotten quarantine station and past methods of disease control

By Mike Scanlon
July 4 2021 - 10:00am
Deadly: Sydney's paid rat catchers show off their rodent haul to help maintain public health in 1900. Picture: State Archives NSW
Deadly: Sydney's paid rat catchers show off their rodent haul to help maintain public health in 1900. Picture: State Archives NSW

ON a remote stretch of high sand facing the ocean at North Stockton sits a solitary grave.

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