Description
This black-and-white pen-and-ink sketch depicts vaccinations against smallpox in Mackay, Queensland, in 1877. In the sketch the local public health officer, who appears to be shouting, wields a large knife and is about to vaccinate a fearful child on his lap. The child's mother holds the child's arm while it screams. A line of women accompanied by children, some unwilling, wait their turn. One woman is leaving after the vaccination. Another woman shakes her fist at the officer.
Acknowledgements
| Credits | Reproduced courtesy of State Library of Queensland
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| Creator | Charles Rawson, illustrator, 1877 |
| Identifiers | State Library of Queensland image number raw00022
TLF resource R9199 |
| Source | State Library of Queensland, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au |
