2020: DAY 54
SMH, p8
Johns’ Cottage, off Margaret St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
p4 - SANATORIUM FOR CONSUMPTIVES AT MT KOSCIUSKO - Letter from P. Sydney Jones supporting J.H. Maiden's & Dr Angel Money's - & the SMH's sub-leader - on desirability of sanitoria at Kosciusko. Most of German and all Swiss sanitoria are above 1300ft
BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE / VISIT TO THE BOTANY SEWAGE FARM - Sewerage news - Meeting of Water & Sewerage Board at Botany Bay works
p6 – “The date fixed by Lord Roberts for the relief of gallant little Mafeking approaches.” Set for 18th May
p8 – BUBONIC PLAGUE - 4 new cases - 95 now in hospital 224 inoculations 6 54 rats
LOSS TO QUARANTINED SHOPKEEPERS / REQUEST FOR COMPENSATION
CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE / MEETING IN DENISON DIVISION - "There was a good attendance, including a number of ladies" -
(Another) Letter from J. Horbury Hunt – remodelling city should be placed in hands "of a small commission of men having ripe qualifications for the masterly conception of making Sydney a great commercial city" - - ref to street widening in London and Paris
THE PLAGUE AT HONOLULU - Impressions of Lord Henry Thynne, who'd been detained because of outbreak; not able to move around very freely, which he resented; - natives more likely to be affected - because of poor drainage.
Filler - "The mind is like a merchant's ledger; it requires to be continually posted up to the latest date."