Historical information

The Death Certificates discussed are of notable people who made important contributions to the establishment and development of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.

Significance

The analysis of the death certificates provides insights not only to the practice of medicine at the turn of nineteenth century Ballarat but into the lives and state of health of a few important people at that time.

Physical description

5 typed pages of a talk in black ink.

Inscriptions & markings

Several "typos" corrected in black biro, pp.2,3,and 4.