2020: DAY 48
SMH, p6
Union Co’s store, south-side, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
(p4)- Another editorial about rubbish: Why doesn’t City Council do something about installing a destructor? Other councils have done it; “ … While the city is doing nothing toward improvement, but leaving garbage half the night in the streets for ragpickers to scatter abroad, until the scavengers collect it in open carts and take it across the length and breadth of the city and dump it down on the surface of a public park …”
(p5) THE WAR
ADVANCE OF LORD ROBERTS
BOER TRENCHES ABANDONED
ENEMY RETREATING
BRITISH PURSUING CAUTIOUSLY
COLONIAL TROOPS IN ACTION
AT THE FRONT
AT BLOEMFONTEIN BOERS SEIZE THE WATERWORKS.
SOMEONE BUNGLED.
AUSTRALIANS EXONERATED (syndicated report)
(p6) BUBONIC PLAGUE
INOCULATION RESUMED TODAY
DREDGING ONTHE FORESHORES
575 rats destroyed
CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
A GRATIFYING PROGRESS REPORT
- 30 complaints to Board of Health and City Council
Branches formed "to carry on the crusade" against insanitary conditions. “…Later, on receipt of epresentations that rats were being brought into the city by tram, the chairman and the honorary secretaries waited on the president of the Board of Health and urged the advisability of establishing local depots for the receipt and destruction of rats…”
Dr Graham: what was needed was very little talk and a great deal of work.
WEXFORD-STREET QUARANTINE AREA / DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
EXHIBITION BUILDING AS PLAGUE HOSPITAL / STRONG PROTEST FROM REDFERN
SHIPPING NEWS
THE CHINGTU G.S. Yuill & Co - agents - announce that the Chingtu has left Hong Kong, on the way to Sydney, picking up a cargo of opium in Macao.