2020: DAY 50
WEEKLY REPORT OF BUREAUCRATIC ENDEAVOURS
MAY 6th – MAY 12th
Batson's Lane off Sussex St, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
Register of Letters to the Colonial Secretary:
May 7, From the Public Service Board re Appointment at Coast Hospital; from the Chief Medical Officer re Appointment at Coast Hospital, inoculations of civil servants
May 8th, From the Chief Medical Officer Re Temporary promotion of nurses;
May 11, From C. Nom re compensation (letter written on April 19th – tardy response) ; From the Director of the Asylum, re the transfer of a nurse to the Quarantine Station. May 11: From the Commandant re typhoid cases from South Africa; from the CMO re Estimates.
Extracts from the Minutes of the Board of Health
May 8th, a case of Plague in Brisbane.
- Rats on Cockatoo Island - Public Works Dept. taking eradication measures.
- Dr Bennett from Melbourne offers his experience from Bombay. Resolved: not required.
- release of patients continues.
- inspection of railway passengers on Queensland border. Application from Dr Freyer seeking appointment as Inspecting M.O. Decided no action necessary.
- Alleged needless damage to property, 101 Quay St and neighbouring houses. President to make personal enquiry.
- alleged neglect of duty by Inspectors - houses which had never been entered declared clean by displayed notices.
- possible importation of plague from infected ports. Concern about imports from Manilla.
- Men confined within Quarantine Depot to be allowed leave of absence as found convenient, men to wash and change clothes before leaving enclosure.
- Sanitary Inspector directed to instruct his men not to wear their yellow badges when off duty in public streets.
May 10, Vic Govt to exercise greater stringency in examination of passengers arriving by train from NSW.
- Chinese patients to be accommodated in tents at Quarantine Station, it was decided.
NSW Govt. Gazette, 1900, Vol 2, Govt. Printer, 1900
Further extensions of scheduled areas – and release and rescission of earlier scheduled areas.
Register of Deaths
Between May 6th & May 12th, there are 10 deaths from Bubonic Plague – 5 men (Etienne Angele, 65, John Hardwick, 53, Ah Hon, 26, Arthur Reid, 25, Michael Molony, 25) 2 women, (Margaret Lawrence, 64, Catherine Henderson, 49), a 5 year old girl (Gladys Caroline McAlloon) and 2 youths (Edmund Edwards, 15 and Harrie Sarina, 17) - the same number of deaths as the previous week.