2020: DAY 14
BUBONIC PLAGUE
ANOTHER CITY AREA RELEASED
"CONTACTS" DISCHARGED FROM QUARANTINE
YESTERDAY'S CASES - release of area b/w Market, Sussex, Kent & King.
WOOLLAHRA SANITARY COMMITTEE - Mr Edward Pulsford MLC moved "That the good fame & property of Sydney and its suburbs, as well as the health of the people require that every effort should be made to stamp out the traces of the plague with all possible speed."
RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT THE QUARANTINE STATION - Wesleyans on station to be ministered by Presbyterian minister. - volunteer sister appointed
RATS AND THE PLAGUE - report from China Mail: Formosa, 1899, report sent by British Consul General at Taiwan to Colonial Secretary - 2633 cases, 1974 deaths, 606 recovered.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SERVICES - "a gentleman occupying a position of some responsibility in the city" who'd been quarantined with family, commends service at Quarantine Station
DAY FOR SPECIAL PRAYER - day for special prayer & "humiliation" set aside by Anglican Church to eliminate plague. Archbishop Smith: ‘I ask you to invite your congregations and parishioners to unite in such special prayer and confession of sin on Thursday next, 12th instant. The day will, I understand, be ' proclaimed ' by the Government, in accordance with representations made to them. Let not the Church of England be backward in earnest supplications, that it may please God to remove this plague from the midst of us, and to increase in our land the prevalence of true religion. The holy week in which we commemorate the Passion and Death of our Lord is surely a fitting season for such self- humiliation and appeal to the mercy of God our Saviour.’
(Only one column on plague; paper tries not to bother people too much at weekends) -
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Lane beside 72 Sussex St, Sydney - Source: State Library of NSW