Dentist At Large – Melbourne – Part 2 – Mornington Peninsula & A Dental Twist
Our friends kindly showed us around the Mornington Peninsula when we stumbled across a Quarantine Station Museum near Portsea next to the bay. This is the dental twist. We have steriliser (or autoclaves) that sterilises our instruments. Remember Covid is one of a long list of pandemics that have afflicted our planet. The last pandemic was the Spanish Flu born of the First World War. All the precautions we used during Covid were figured out during the Spanish Flu, except they had no vaccine – 25 million people died. However, they had sterilisation! The quarantine station has a huge one.
Travellers would be in quarantine and their luggage and clothing would be gas sterilised. The bed linen was steam sterilised and dried as well. (Unfortunately, people can’t be cured by the same methods).
The clothing and luggage would come in via a track into the large sterilising chamber, which is basically a large room, and are pressure cooked with the aid of a large boiler.
The process was also used against a small pox outbreak in 1950’s but they then found it was cowpox, so no need for the extreme measures which the passengers endured for three months, unnecessarily.
We drove along the bay, then into the peninsula to explore what this region has to offer, which is within an hour’s drive from Melbourne.
The Mornington peninsula has wineries, where we had lunch; and hot mineral springs, where I burnt it off in a 41 degree bath. Both very relaxing, but the hot spring has a slightly more shock value.
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Dentist At Large – Melbourne - Part 3 – The City