2020: DAY 34
SMH, p6
BLACK LABOUR IN QUEENSLAND - LETTER TO THE EDITOR (p3) “… Buildings, road work, bridges, railway works, and every description of heavy graft, whore bone and sinew are required, are almost invariably carried out by white men, and when coloured labour is employed it is on grounds of economy, not because white men are incapable….”
BUBONIC PLAGUE
(p6)
THE CAPITATION BONUS FOR RATS
- capitation fee raised threefold - from tuppence to sixpence.per rat delivered to the rat incinerator. [Note: At the time, nurses working in the Quarantine Station were paid one shilling & ninepence a day – less than the capitation fee on 4 rats ]
NEW CASES YESTERDAY
- 3 cases - one was too ill to be moved.
MINISTERIAL INSPECTION OF THE WHARFS
PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF THE FERRY SERVICE
PREMISES TO BE REPAIRED AND CLEANED
THE CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
ADOPTION OF EXEC'S REPORT
A FULL PROGRAMME
- (A bureaucratic mapping) proposal - to divide up city into 11 divisions, same as electoral boundaries; 2. to call for 5 volunteers within divisions whose job is to call meetings etc and to appoint local committees. Complaints referred to local committees sitting with general committee. Each committee to have one male and one female inspector at least, empowered to enforce Health Act.
… That the Water and Sewerage Board be requested to fix one night on which the whole sewerage system of the metropolitan area be filled with sulphur fumes, and that a big public and private effort be made on that night to kill rats… That inoculated men be appointed to each municipality to act under orders of the Mayor or local committee …
Question of fleas - an onslaught had been made on rats, but what about fleas (which were being linked with transmission) Dr Tidswell said he'd address the General Committee on the plague and its causes. "The matter of the flea" would be included.
" A member of the committee said he noticed there were a few fleas in the room."
Interior, 120 Sussex St, Sydney - Source; State Library of NSW