Julie Collins is Research Associate and Curator at the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia. She has published on architectural, cultural and social history including on the influence of climate on Australian colonial architecture, women in the architectural profession, the cultural significance of architectural records as well as architectural histories of asylums and sanatoria.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1 Introduction 2 Place as Prescription: Health and the designed environment 3 Fresh air, reform and exercise: Early public parks and the health of the people4 Cures, cleanliness and recreation: Public baths and wash-houses5 Mirroring the spread of epidemics: Quarantine stations and lazarettos6 Moral treatment and non-restraint: Asylums for the mentally ill7 Isolating the individual: Leprosaria and Hansen’s disease8 The open-air treatment: Tuberculosis sanatoria 9 Sunlight, space and surfaces: Healthy homes10 Ideas from the past Index

Julie Collins is Research Associate and Curator at the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia. She has published on architectural, cultural and social history including on the influence of climate on Australian colonial architecture, women in the architectural profession, the cultural significance of architectural records as well as architectural histories of asylums and sanatoria.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1 Introduction 2 Place as Prescription: Health and the designed environment 3 Fresh air, reform and exercise: Early public parks and the health of the people4 Cures, cleanliness and recreation: Public baths and wash-houses5 Mirroring the spread of epidemics: Quarantine stations and lazarettos6 Moral treatment and non-restraint: Asylums for the mentally ill7 Isolating the individual: Leprosaria and Hansen’s disease8 The open-air treatment: Tuberculosis sanatoria 9 Sunlight, space and surfaces: Healthy homes10 Ideas from the past Index

Julie Collins is Research Associate and Curator at the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia. She has published on architectural, cultural and social history including on the influence of climate on Australian colonial architecture, women in the architectural profession, the cultural significance of architectural records as well as architectural histories of asylums and sanatoria.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1 Introduction 2 Place as Prescription: Health and the designed environment 3 Fresh air, reform and exercise: Early public parks and the health of the people4 Cures, cleanliness and recreation: Public baths and wash-houses5 Mirroring the spread of epidemics: Quarantine stations and lazarettos6 Moral treatment and non-restraint: Asylums for the mentally ill7 Isolating the individual: Leprosaria and Hansen’s disease8 The open-air treatment: Tuberculosis sanatoria 9 Sunlight, space and surfaces: Healthy homes10 Ideas from the past Index