2020: DAY 57
WEEKLY REPORT OF BUREAUCRATIC ENDEAVOURS,
MAY 13th – MAY 19th
383 Kent St, Sydney, Rear, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
Register of Letters to the Colonial Secretary:* Main content - Admissions to asylums, allowances to asylums, rail passes to state employees and worthy cases, volunteers etc for South Africa
May 15th, From A Ross, MP sending thanks for the printing of a paper on public health. From the Commandant re typhoid in army camps.
May 16th From Chief Medical Officer re Sale of old clothes wringer at Coast Hospital; May 17th, from Ah Hong re compensation; May 18th, From B.Bogan, re compensation; May 19th, From Secretary of the Board of Health re danger run in contracting plague by fire companies from country districts camped in Sydney.
Extracts from the Minutes of the Board of Health
May 15th: Mayor undertook to give instances where premises declared clean which hadn' t been entered by his inspectors.
May 17th: Letter from Dr Richard Arthur forwarded by Treasurer, suggesting that Prof. Simpson should be invited to colony in connection with plague outbreak. "Resolved, as defects in regard to sanitary conditions of Sydney are thoroughly well-known and understood and can be remedied by strict administration of existing laws, Board sees no reason for securing services of Professor Simpson at this juncture."
NSW Govt. Gazette, 1900, Vol 2, Govt. Printer, 1900
Further extensions of scheduled areas – and release and rescision of earlier scheduled areas.
Register of Deaths
Between May 13th & May 192th, there are 10 deaths from Bubonic Plague – 6 men (John Isaac Nutt, 25, Bow You, 28, Ah Hern (age unknown), Ah Chong 38, James Doherty, 70 and Joseph Sudbury Redman, 45), 3 youths (Henry Milne McDonough, 20, Bernard Sullivan, 19, David Oatzeus, 20) and an 11 year old girl (Stella Patmore) - the same number of deaths as the two previous weeks.