2020: DAY 35
SMH p10
THE WHARF RESUMPTION QUESTION, (p7)
DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER
PROBABLY EARLY ACTION
- all in favour of resumption (deputation from Chamber of Commerce)
- 1882 - deputation from mercantile community went to then Premier, Sir John Robertson. Wharfage Improvement Ass'n formed.
Sept 1883 another deputation to Stuart Dibbs Ministry. No result.
1887 - deputation to Sir Henry Parkes. No result.
1892 - Harbour Trust Bill moved when Lyne was Works Minister but Govt changed and it lapsed.
Lyne proposed raising money thru' loans
Deputation from municipalities - on same matter
- useless to make suburbs healthy if city, where people worked, was unhealthy
- out of nearly 7 miles of wharfs, only 16,950 feet belonged to Govt.
"If we desired to develop the pastoral, mineral and manufacturing industries of the colony we could not do better than provide them with a cheap, clean, expeditious method of handling the products of their toil.
THE WAR
(p9)
GOOD NEWS FROM MAFEKING
THE BARBARITIES OF THE BOERS
BUBONIC PLAGUE (p10)
YESTERDAY'S CASES
ARRIVAL OF YERSIN'S SERUM
- 3 new cases
- 281 rats
- Yersin's - only enough for 1/2 dose for one person! (Did they get doses wrong?)
- Ashburton-Thmpson plays with figures:
Oporto - 60% died
Sydney - so far 34% death rate. 13 died at home and 9 in hospitals before they could be removed. Subtracting 22 from 52 (Total deaths) left 30 deaths (at Quarantine Station - mortality of 23% -> so medical care at Quarantine Station good.
A RECOVERED PATIENT
COMMENDS TREATMENT IN QUARANTINE - ‘… Although I was on the open deck I was warm enough, aud I consider the trip revived me’. (TripAdvisor, 1900)
THE CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
DEPUTATION TO PREMIER -
"The committee had for one of its aims the desire of impressing upon individual citizens the very great responsibility resting upon them for personal effort."
Lyne said he was glad of the help but he wasn't going to give up control of operations to any body of persons
MINING OPERATIONS AFFECTED - complaint abt cost of chloride of lime and permanganate of potash, used in gold-saving operations in Vic. had increased because of plague. Chloride of lime £13/10/- per ton before outbreak. Now £26
LECTURE AT THE YMCA ROOMS
THE POSSIBLE PERIOD OF THE PLAGUE
- lecture by Prof Anderson Stuart
- hisory of plague
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”…The Professor here displayed by aid of the limelight a number of photographs of various bacilli - “… it was well understood that a knowledge of the enemy was one of the best ways to learn how to defeat him. ln this way if the British had better known what they were going to meet with in South Africa things there would have been different from what they were to-day. After all the plague was simply a battle between the man and the microbe, and his desire was that his hearers should understand the microbe and its ways, so that they might fear it less and be in a position to fight it with better weapons and to better advantage than if they did not understand it. …”
120 Sussex St, Rear - Source: State Library of NSW