2020: DAY 33
SMH, p8
Note: Overall, I’m focusing on the Bubonic Plague stories in this account, but, given the time of the year - and the time of the planet - it’s worth mentioning other major stories covered each day. - such as the syndicated and extensive reporting on the Boer War, taking four months to reach readers. Navigate around the Trove SMH links if you want to read more …
AT LADYSMITH.: BY OUR SPECIAL WAR CORRESPONDENT, D. A. MACDONALD. (p4)
CHRISTMAS TIME.
FACETIOUS BOERS.
PLUM PUDDING INSIDE A SHELL.
AN AUDACIOUS VEDETTE.
BOERS' CAMPING PLACE.
THE NAVALS' HURRICANE.
FOUR SHOTS IN TWENTY SECONDS.
THOSE WHO DIE IN BATTLE.
PITIFUL PATHOS.
"LIVE-DEAD" BOERS.
HOSPITALS SANS COMFORTS.
PATIENTS DYING FROM STARVATION.
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LADYSMITH, New Year’s Day
QUEEN VICTORIA CONSUMPTIVES HOME
- (p4)
Open-air treatment of consumption
- exec committee meeting
Mrs Langer, Miss Dibbs, Miss Harris, Messrs R. Teese, F. Grimley, & H. Levy (Hon Treasurer) Drs C Purser (hon sec) Sydney Jones & Camac Wilkinson
- Jones read report of o/s trip (left Sydney Jan 1898!) on fact-finding tour to look at sanatorium or open-air treatment of consumptives. This system had been in operation for 40 yrs in Germany but not done in G.B. where 60,000 die annually; 4000 in Oz; "One-seventh of mankind die of tuberculosis" and a great many more are affected by it, three-quarters recovering. (post-mortem evidence of damaged lungs in cases of death from other causes)
- "pure air" "mephitic vapour" dietetics"
- "Mental rest is also essential ... Reading exciting books, much talking and loud laughter are therefore forbidden."
- soil should be dry and well-drained. Air dry and light. Fresh air, sunshine, good food.
BUBONIC PLAGUE - p8 - (308 words)
YESTERDAY'S CASES - 5 cases, 2 deaths
279 rats caught.
A CHAT WITH A RELEASED PATIENT
HIS OPINIONS ON THE QUARANTINE STATION
- - Mr E.C. Bevan - had no complaints of trip to Quarantine Station
CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
MEETING OF EXEC
.RATCATCHING AT DRUMMOYNE
Bradley’s cottages, off Sussex St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW