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- Title
A Forgotten Quarantine Landscape; The Staten Island Marine Hospital Quarantine 1799-1858.
- Authors
Weber, Amanda
- Abstract
Quarantine and isolation practices leave behind landscapes of lasting policies, procedures, and structures. The structures and history surrounding the landscapes can work their way out of collective memory. Through a critical examination of records from the local Board of Health, historical maps, and local archives, I construct a timeline of the quarantine landscape of the Staten Island Marine Hospital and its imprint left on New York history. A Memorial Green now embodies what was once the Staten Island Marine Hospital Quarantine in front of the new Courthouse, with obelisks and a headstone to commemorate the immigration journey of those attempting to escape the Great Famine (1845-1849).
- Subjects
STATEN Island (New York, N.Y.); QUARANTINE; NAVAL &; marine hospitals; HISTORY of public health; GREAT Famine, Ireland, 1845-1852; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Material Culture, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0883-3680
- Publication type
Article