2020: DAY 65
SMH
Rear, 50 Wexford St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
(p3) – BUBONIC PLAGUE / GRATIFYING DIMINUTION OF CASES - At 19th May, 100 patients convalescing; by 26th May, there had been 7 new patients, 19 discharged, 6 died. Total: 82npatients. 1st week since March 10 when numbers didn't reach double figures. The highest no of deaths in one week (12) occurred in week ending April 14th. Highest no of cases in one week: 38 . Total cases to date: 247 Deaths: 89 Recovered: 76 Death rate: 36% ; Town Hall: 62 inoculated on Sat.
SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS AT REDFERN
PERSISTENCY OF A NIHILIST PAPER
- story of pursuit of Polish Nihilists in Warsaw; expert Nihilist-hunters from St Petersburg sent down to find them. One press found but paper reappeared within hours, naming those arrested, and the informer, who was later found stabbed to death in a street.
- Editorial commenting on export of British coal and fear that it would diminish superiority of Britain -> why not use NSW coal as a substitute?
(p4) – THE WEATHER / A BRIEF INTERVAL OF SUNSHINE / THE STORM OF LAST WEEK / REPORTS FROM THE FLOODED RIVERS
(p5) – A WOMAN’S LETTER FROM LONDON / THE SPRING / A SAD EASTER / MAFEKING AND THE NURSERY / FASHIONS / HAND-MADE TRIMMINGS / THE ROYAL FAMILY / THE JEW AS SOLDIER (extolling the virtues and patriotism of a Jewish officer, killed in South Africa – notwithstanding ‘our preconceived notions of the Hebrew people’)
THE WAR / MAFEKING DAY - pages and pages of reports
(p 7) – CHINESE SEDITIOUS SOCIETY – The Great Powers have represented to the Tsung-li-Yamen the necessity of suppressing the “Boxers”, a Chinese seditious society, which has committed a number of outrages.
THE MARCHING OF THE TROUPS / SPLENDID PERFORMANCES / LONDON
AT THE FRONT. / NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS. / WORK REQUIRING VIGILANCE. / OUTPOST DUTY. / AUSTRALIAN TROOPS EXCEL. / COMPLIMENTED BY LORD ROBERTS. / REVEILLE AT FOUR O'CLOCK. / OUT IN THE OPEN. / SATURATED WITH RAIN. / VISIT OF GENERAL HUTTON. / WARM COMMENDATIONS. /(FROM A CORRESPONDENT) BLOEMFONTEIN, April 26.