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Getting the jab on the Goldfields was compulsory, says historian

Caleb Cluff
December 5 2021 - 3:00pm

By 1858, life on the Ballarat Goldfield was settled into a fairly steady if rough routine. Ballarat was a boozy, muddy, filthy, treeless site. Contagious diseases - cholera, typhoid, dysentery - were prevalent.

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Caleb Cluff

Caleb Cluff

Senior Journalist, The Courier

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