2020: DAY 41
SMH, p3
Note: By early May 1900, Bubonic Plague is slipping back in the newspaper as bigger stories come forward - Federation, the Boer War, Resumption of the Wharfs and waterfront - but it has not disappeared and its presence informs the shape of response especially to the Public Works to follow…
Sussex St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
FEDERATION (p3)
THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.
MEETING OF THE BAR ON CLAUSE 74.
RETENTION OF RIGHT OF APPEAL TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
A RESOLUTION CARRIED IN FAVOUR.
MESSAGE FROM MR. DEAKIN. PUBLIC MOVEMENT URGED,. MELBOURNE. Thursday.
Mr A Deakin sent a cable message to the Premier suggesting there should be a public movement throughout Australia to impress on the Imperial Government that the people in these colonies desire that the Commonwealth Constitution Bill should be passed without amendment …
WHARF RESUMPTION.
THE DARLING HARBOUR SCHEME.
THE EFFECT OP THE PROCLAMATION.
FUTURE PROCEDURE.
THE QUESTION OF VALUATION.
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
VARIOUS POINTS INVOLVED. - very useful map
BUBONIC PLAGUE
(p6)
LONG LIST OF PATIENTS
FOUR DEATHS -
910 rats
ERADICATION OF PLAGUE - 900 deaths/week in Calcutta; reported in letter from Colombo
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Letter from a doctor who witnessed Queen's ratcatcher at work.
"Dicky " Deane … was a most eccentric man : but in spite of this he was undoubtedly a master of his craft. … he had at his command a well-trained set of rat terriers, about 40 in number, also six trained ferrets, three of which he carried in each side pocket. Placing his dogs at intervals of about six yards, he made a cordon around a large barn Each dog knew his name, as did each ferret, After caressing one of the latter he sent him into the basement of the building, and the remaining ferrets quickly followed. In a very short time rats appeared from all points, and as they emerged they were seized by the dogs, who appeared to kill about 20 per minute. It occurs to me that if the Government would import about 100 trained ferrets and a suitable number of trained rat terriers ...
AT LADYSMITH - horseflesh rations (few days earlier garrison was catching locusts to eat) - "Rontgen rays" in use