2020: DAY 31
SMH, p3
BUBONIC PLAGUE
SEVERAL CASES YESTERDAY
DR THOMPSON ON THE SITUATION
- “The cleaning up of the city does not stop the plague, and there is no country in the world where mere cleaning up has ever done so. The chief thing to be done is to kill all the rats. We may clean up as much as we like, the rats carry the disease about from one place to another-one house to another, one district to another-and we must kill them."
AN APPEAL TO WOMEN - Instructions from Ladies’ Section of the Woollahra Sanitary Committee: – “Women of New South Wales, – Help the authorities to conquer the plague. Remember that the dustboxes and all household refuse are in your charge. Remember that evil-smelling dustboxes make evil-smelling carts and evil-smelling tips, encouraging rats and plague germs. 1st : Burn in your kitchen fires daily all animal and vegetable refuse, such as parings of fruits and vegetables, scraps left on plates. Put them in the stove when your cooking is finished. There will be no bad smell, and they will keep your fire alight. 2nd: Cut up small all ends of mutton chops, pieces of suet, or fat, and boil them in a saucepan of water till all the water has evaporated. Strain this fat: you can use it instead of butter in cooking. 3rd: Boil down all bones (except those left on plates) and when the water is cold take off the fat. Add vegetables, rice, lentils &c., and this will make a good soup. … Pour off all melted fat into a kerosene tin, and get a man to call from the soap works and exchange it for soap. 4th: If you have fowls keep all scraps for them in a covered tin … 5th: Keep your dustbox free from bad smells … let it contain only clean ashes. 6th: In trains, trams and omnibuses, and in your own homes, open windows, pull up blinds; air and sunshine will protect you from plague germs….”
OTHER COLONIES
CAPTURE OF A RAT IN BRISBANE
FULL OF PLAGUE BACILLI
PLAGUE ON OPORTO - more very detailed medical material
REMOVAL OF PLAGUE PATIENTS - letter to ed questioning safety of removing patients to Quarantine Station -> injurious to their health.
Rear, 383-385 Kent St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW