2020: DAY 27
BUBONIC PLAGUE
A CLEAN SHEET
PROGRESS OF THE CLEANSING OPERATIONS
- no new case for day. Ashburton-Thompson (Chief MO) commenting on relatively low mortality rate in Sydney -> due to Dr Salter's efforts in attending patients - "literally stood over them administering stimulants to keep up the heart's actions" Strychnine was the most used "stimulant" - inoculations not being carried out because of lack of supplies. Haffkine's from Colombo to arrive 1st week of May. Then Yersin's from France and Italy. - Dr Tidswell's discoveries of plague bacillus in the stomachs of fleas taken from rats. - 200 rats disposed of (HG: These daily totals are vastly different from numbers mentioned earlier.) - municipal authorities from Alexandria say that a case was wrongly reported to have come from there, when it really came from an adjoining suburb. (probably a Botany case - Chinese)
SEWERAGE EMPTYING INTO DARLING HARBOUR
THE BELMORE PARK AREA
COMPLAINTS OF RESIDENTS
- houses made uninhabitable by cleansing gangs, or pulled down without notice, rendering people homeless.
WOOLLAHRA SANITARY AFFAIRS
INSPECTION BY DR ARMSTRONG
THE PADDINGTON TIP
INSPECTION BY THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
PROTECTIONIST CONFERENCE. - it could be argued that free trade had given us Bubonic Plague (Laughter)
Illawarra Wharf, King St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW