2020: DAY 46
SMH, p5
Huddart, Parker & Co Wharf, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
(p5) BUBONIC PLAGUE
FURTHER CASES REPORTED
- In Redfern … the Assyrian quarter has been found to be the dirtiest as well s the most overcrowded and the reports of the inspectors would seem to indicate that the extreme of filthiness has almost been reached in their dwellings ….some of the tenements occupied by Europeans are not many removes above the other.’
WORK ON THE WHARFS
- Huddart Parker & Co’s wharf - one of the oldest in Sydney
MAKING READY TO RESUME TRAFFIC
DEMOLITION OF OLD STRUCTURES- 300 men working at foot of Margaret St.
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WHARFS WITHIN RESUMED AREA
REPORT TO PREMIER - report from McCredie & Hickson (Under Sec of Works) outlining areas to be demolished, rebuilt along wharves. Lyne approves action
THE QUARANTINED WHARFS
SERIOUS EFFECT ON SHIPPING
INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING SHIPPING MEN
- ‘A proposition was even mooted as to whether it would not be advisable in the interests of the intercolonial companies to run their steamers between the northern and southern colonies (i.e. Queensland and Victoria) without calling at Sydney.
WORKING UNDER GREAT DISABILITIES
THE RATS HAVE DESERTED THE WHARVES
THE PROPOSED PLAGUE MORGUE
THE PLAGUE AND THE QUARANTINE - letter suggesting Girls Reformatory in Rose Bay be used to relieve crowding at Quarantine Station. ‘The present occupants could be sent to Cooma, and there be cared for in the “white elephant” of that town, the late gaol, upon which a few years ago £20,000 was spent to turn it into a receptacle for the mad and otherwise brain affected people.’