2020: DAY 62
SMH, p4
192-4 Elizabeth St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
p4 -EVENING EDITION / THE LATEST CABLES / THE LATEST COUNTRY AND INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS / LATEST COMMERCIAL AND MARKET NEWS / SPORTING AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE Editorial on relative sanitary virtues of Sydney & Melbourne, responding to Melb. press attacks on Sydney as one of the most insanitary cities in the world; - quotes death rate in Melb. as 17.77/1000. So, 1250 have died each year who wouldn't have if sanitation had been as good there as here. So its population would be 10 - 15,000 more if it had been more salubrious. In London, (death rate 26), 200,000 more would have lived if city as good as Sydney -> "A few facts are worth much more than florid descriptions of filth." Filth descriptions o.k. as incentive to cleaning up dirtiest places.. "But unfortunately they have had other and prejudicial influences seriously affecting the general business of the city and the trade of the port. The exaggerations have served their purpose and something more. The absolute truth requires to be known. - Editorial on women as sanitary inspectors. Idea of femininity as being more diligent at inspection. Doubts about women because they mightn't know as much as men about drains and drainage, so they'd have to ask the men and this would duplicate services. – “A sanitary inspector is supposed to be a person who has devoted much study to the question, and who has passed the examinations required. This officer must know everything about drains and drainage, and must be able not only to point out defects, but to suggest remedies. Of course a woman can pass such an examination as well as a man, and her knowledge of drainage and cognate subjects may be just as full. In several cases, indeed, a woman inspector might do better work than a man inspector could do. … A woman keenly bent on discharging her duty might find out defects which had escaped the notice of a man inspector …. A man inspector, assured by the house- mistress that everything was all right, might be inclined to take things for granted and to report favourably on the house in question. A woman inspector who knew her business would insist on verifying the statement…"
THE WAR / LORD ROBERTS’ SWIFT ADVANCE / HIS STRATEGY AND STRENGTH / OVERWHELMING THE BOERS / CROSSING RHENOSTER RIVER / STOUTLY DISPUTED / CO-OPERATION OF COLUMNS DEFEATS THE ENEMY / MARCH OF THE COLONIAL DIVISION / ON THE ARMY'S RIGHT FLANK / RELIEF OF MAFEKING / QUEENSLANDERS' BRAVERY / AMBUSCADE NEAR VRYHEID / LONDON, May 23.
QUEENSLANDEES' MAGNIFICENT RECKLESSNESS / LONDON, May 24. The men of the Queensland Bushmen’s Contingent, which accompanied Colonel Plumer's relieving column in the fight before Mafeking behaved with magnificent recklessness. They escaped scathless.
BUBONIC PLAGUE / FURTHER RELEASE OF PATIENTS With the apparent abatement of energy of the infection there also appears to be a falling off in the applicants for inoculation. Ever since the latest supply of prophylactic serum arrived there has been nothing approaching a rush, and the number of persons who presented themselves yesterday was less than on any day since operations commenced at the Town Hall. Drs. Shells and Doyle had only 22 persons on whom to operate, though 94 tickets were issued for that day.
A LOST TRIBE OF ESQUIMAUS / THEY BUILD THEIR HOMES OF WHALES' SKULLS