JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16TH, 1900 / by Helen Grace

2020: DAY 53

SMH, p8

Removing floor, Huddart Parker's Wharf, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW

Removing floor, Huddart Parker's Wharf, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW

p5: LETTER: DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP / TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD from J. Horbury Hunt
-> "Our city improvements must be of that character as shall be of the highest service to our merchants in trading on our behalf with the whole world - not forgetting that a highly commercial city can be made at the same time a beautiful place of abode for her general citizens also securing for our city labouring community homes within the city well placed for that early morning call to work. These homes must be healthy and comfortable. We should fall short of an ideal commercial city if this great factor in its commercial strength be not well provided for. Science now bids all forces to give of their best. Man must be healthy and comfortable in his abode to give the best of his force, namely labour."

Advt BUBONIC PLAGUE POSITIVELY PREVENTED by sprinkling Eckersley’s Mentholine in your underwear. All chemists 1s. Australian Drug Co., wholesale agents  

THE COMMONWEALTH BILL / PROSPECTS OF THE MEASURE / DOINGS OF THE DELEGATES. / THEY STAND BY THEIR GUNS./ (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) LONDON, April 13

DEPUTATIONS /THE LABOUR QUESTION / UNION RATE OF WAGES

P7: FEDERATION / COMMONWEALTH BILL INTRODUCED / SPEECH BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN / AN ERA IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY / THE MOTHERLAND AND THE COLONIES, LONDON May 14


- 1000 men employed yesterday in quarantine areas


P8: BUBONIC PLAGUE
 / YESTERDAY'S CASES
- 2 cases, 2 deaths 
652 rats
 86 inoculations; ladies and children's day, at the Town Hall for inoculation purposes.s

MANLY
 HARBOUR POLLUTION / 
A DANGER FROM SHIPS REFUSE

APPOINTMENT OF SANITARY INSPECTORS - LEICHHARDT 

PRECAUTIONS AT PADDINGTON

POSTAL REGULATIONS
- no second-hand clothes to Vic. from NSW