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Year Month Day Date Affected Localities Action Authority Government Gazette 1919 January 27 27 January 1919 New South Wales Quarantine Proclamation No. 40 – Commonwealth of Australia W. Massy Greene, Federal Gazette No. 11 – Declares that New South Wales is infected with Minister for Trade and Pneumonic Influenza, that the state is a Quarantine Area, and that Customs all persons and goods from the state shall be subject to quarantine. 1919 January 28 28 January 1919 Victoria Quarantine Proclamation No. 39 – Commonwealth of Australia W. Massy Greene, Federal Gazette No. 12 – Declares that Victoria is infected with Pneumonic Minister for Trade and Influenza, that the state is a Quarantine Area, and that all persons Customs and goods from the state shall be subject to quarantine. 1919 January 28 28 January 1919 Metropolitan Police District Proclamation orders that all libraries, schools, churches, theatres, John D. Fitzgerald (Minister of No. 13 picture shows, public billiard rooms, public halls, and places of Public Health, NSW) - under indoor resort for public entertainment shall be closed and kept command of Sir Walter E. closed in the Metropolitan Police District. Davidson, Governor of NSW 1919 January 30 30 January 1919 New South Wales and Declares that the disease has broken out in Victoria and that John D. Fitzgerald (Minister of No.14 neighbouring Victoria Victorian residents are not permitted entrance into New South Public Health, NSW) - under Wales. Any NSW resident residing within ten miles of the VIC command of Sir Walter E. border may return to NSW if they can prove to an Officer in Davidson, Governor of NSW Charge of the Police in NSW and a Government Medical Officer of NSW that they have not been in contact with any infected regions of VIC in the previous seven days.
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