2020: DAY 18
BUBONIC PLAGUE
WORK IN THE QUARANTINED AREAS
YESTERDAYS CASES - "rat-destroying crusade" to be undertaken. Ashburton-Thompson in charge of administering it.
COST OF GOVT ARRANGEMENTS - £20-30,000/month.
COMPELLING SANITARY REFORMS
UNITED ACTION BY ALL AUTHORITIES
DRASTIC WORK TO BE UNDERTAKEN - ( 2 sewerage systems were in operation, the Council's and the Water Board's) -> WB has not authority to compel owners to connect to sewers already built by city, although it has powers in relation to its own sewers. - under Sect. 38 of Public Health Act, Council is empowered to serve notice on owners of insanitary buildings - Attorney-Gen. (Wise) had received list of owners of most insanitary premises. He was sure they could not have been aware of the state of premises.
THE QUARANTINE GANGS AT WORK
STATE OF BELMORE PARK AREA
UNSUSPECTED ABOMINATIONS - in tenements - "state of things that transcends Darling Harbour revelations, and makes them appear small by comparison. - "filth oozed out from beneath floors"; stables - "the damp from which percolated through the walls and travelled up them by capillary action." "The details are sickening and almost unprintable"
QUARANTINING OF ERSKINE ST - meeting of merchants and shopkeepers agree to send deputation to seek compensation for loss of trade.
MEETING AT WOOLLAHRA
ADDRESS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROPERTY-OWNERS
PROMPT ACTION TO BE TAKEN - (Attorney-General spoke as resident of borough, keen to assist local council) -> "There was an old proverb that if every householder would sweep in front of his own door the street would soon be clean" - more local govt precautions - Redfern, Canterbury,
GARBAGE DESTRUCTORS
EXPERIENCES IN HONG KONG
SUGGESTIONS FOR RESIDENTS OF SYDNEY (always it seems, the natives are particularly susceptible but Europeans are not) - suggested that men involved in cleaning should smoke and take spirituous liquors to protect them. Also, be careful of skin lacerations
A CLEAN MAN (on same page) - Advertisement for Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills - Outside cleanliness is less than half the battle. Good health means "clean stomach, clean bowels, clean blood, clean liver, and new, clean healthy tissues and fibres in every organ of the body."
Ads - The Plague - can be spread by milk delivered from dirty dairies - so, buy our clean milk - NSW Fresh Food & Ice Co.
Cleansing the streets - Source: State Library of NSW