2020: DAY 44
SMH, p9
Note: By the second week in May, reports on Bubonic Plague slip further back in the daily news, as public works programs, (arising from the outbreak) the question of Federation and the Boer War take greater precedence. And of course the regular commercial, sporting entertainment and religious news, gossip and inconsequential events…
Bradley's cottages off Sussex St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
THE DARLING HARBOUR RESUMPTIONS (p5)
CRITICISM BY MR. REID.
REPLY BY THE PREMIER.
THE LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY.
ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT. – Labour Party in favour of resumptions.. Support for Premier against Reid's attack
. Editorial - in support of resumptions. -> "Ours is a commercial port, the first in this hemispehre, and we have to see to it that it is worthy of its position. The present wharfage accomodation is a reproach, and it is high time it was improved. The scheme will give us in its place a clean, stone fronted deep water foreshore, capable of providing largely increased wharfage accomodation for our ever increasing shipping trade. It will sweep away for good a part of the city which is a standing rebuke to our administration of municipal affairs and an ever-active forcing bed of disease.."
- ref to Birmingham resumptions and falling death rate.
(p7) MISS OLGA NETHERSOLE. LONDON, May 4. Miss Olga Nethersole, the well-known actress, is suing a Presbyterian minister for an alleged libel in his pulpit in connection with the "anti-Sapho crusade."
THEOSOPHY Miss Lilian Edger, M.A. gives a course at the Sydney Theosophical Society on karma and freewill.
THE DECLINE AND VALUE OF OPERETTA
(p9) THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR INOCULATION.
THE WEEKLY RETURNS. … Several patients are mentioned in Dr Salter's bulletin of yesterday as being in a serious condition The delirium is intense in many of these;, others have high fever. … Circulars have been issued to merchants and managers of businesses in what is considered by health authorities as the infected areas, informing them that they may send in a list of the employees at their establishments. As soon as the prophylactic is received the persons sending in lists will be informed by post, and a ticket will be sent for each person named in the lists, entitling him to inoculation on a date stamped thereon. If it is thought advisable to divide the list, so as to send one contingent of the employees on one day and another on a succeeding day, arrangements will be made to that effect. This has been done in order that the regular course of business in commercial houses may be interrupted as little as possible. … A portion of the basement of the Town Hall has been set aside for the purpose…