Press and Propaganda

Changing Attitudes

In the last article until 1886 about smallpox in Victoria, the Colonist reported that a Native woman was sick in town, but did not demand her removal.

20 February 1863, p. 3.

Small Pox Again.--Complaint was yesterday made to the city authorities that an Indian woman dangerously ill with the small pox, was lying in a small shanty towards the back of Mr. Cameron’s blacksmith shop on Cormorant street. The City Inspector visited the spot in company with a medical man, but, as in the latter’s opinion the removal of the afflicted person would have been attended by fatal results, no action was taken in the matter.