Year of Disaster Brisbane 1864

A history of Brisbane in 1864, when the town was struggling to overcome a series of five disasters, three major fires, a flood, a Cyclone and a Typhoid outbreak. To fight fire, there were buckets, chains and puddles. To fight disease, there was a quarantine system relying on ships' doctors and captains, who knew that infection would doom them to weeks under canvas on an island in Moreton bay. To fight the flood, there were only government loans and hope....