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Disease--the real invader.(Invisible Invaders by Judy Campbell)(Book Review)

Quadrant

| October 01, 2003 | Murray, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"MUMMY, what happened to all the Aborigines?" I asked, long, long ago. "They got sick and died," she replied. And, allowing for a seven-year-old's need for simplicity, she was right. There is not a lot of disagreement about this. An Aboriginal population that may have numbered nearly a million in 1780 declined to barely a tenth of that number a century later and kept on declining until it reached a low of about 74,000 around 1930, and then gradually recovered to the present figure, as officially counted, of around 400,000.

The frontier conflict historians reviewed in the July-August Quadrant do not dispute the big picture--that illness, not settlers' guns and ...

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