Report on the outbreak of plague at Sydney, 1900 / by the Chief Medical Officer of the Government and President of the Board of Health.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report on the outbreak of plague at Sydney, 1900 / by the Chief Medical Officer of the Government and President of the Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX N. feu Circular. Form No. 236. Department of Public Health, New South Wales, Sydney, 8 February, 1900. Bubonic Plague. ir vk I do myself the honor to draw your attention to the enclosed copy of Supplementary Government Gazette of the 6th instant, No. 108, in which Plague is proclaimed to be a notifiable disease under the Public Health Act, Part ITI, in accordance with Section 20 thereof. 2. In connection with this proclamation, I would point out that, whereas notification of the commoner infectious diseases is properly not required until the diagnosis has become clear [see Public — Health Act, Section 21 (b)], it is desirable in the general public interest that a somewhat different course should be taken with Plague. Success in the prevention of this disease depends so largely on early know- ledge of all cases which occur that, although it is not the law, I venture to urge upon you the desirability of notifying not only declared cases, but also those in which the clinical symptoms, the patient’s occupations, his recent movements, &c., &c., furnish ground for reasonable suspicion of plague. I have, &e., J. ASHBURTON THOMPSON, Chief Medical Officer of the Government. APPENDIX O. Department of Public Health, N.S.W. Form 247. Directions for Special Cleansing and Disinfecting, issued to the Staff of Sanitary Inspectors, Scavengers, &c. LimEwasH ceilings whenever dirty, and in all small property ; spare good ceilings in good condition or decorated, &e., &e. Limewash all whitened walls afresh ; limewash all cellar, basement, and outhouse walls. Swab all woodwork thoroughly with carbolic water—include sash frames, window cases, Wc. Remove all floor coverings ; have carpets beaten ; oilcloth, &c., to be washed with carbolic water on both sides. Scrub the floors if of boards, and swab with carbolic water. Thoroughly saturate inside stone and brick floorings with carbolic water. Saturate all outside pavements and soil with sulphuric acid water. All lumber and the like not in actual use must be removed from the premises and not returned to them. All wastes, garbage, ashes, dung, stable bedding, &c., &c., must be removed, and stable bedding renewed with clean stuff. : . Stable floors, if of wood, or likely to be foul beneath, must be torn up, the surface below thoroughly cleansed as described, and replaced with good floors properly close-jomted and caulked, well-bedded on a sound bottom, and graded to a gutter. The gutter must be placed in communication with a gulley leading to the sewer. All drains, gullies, sinks, water-closets must be first flushed with hot water. They must then be flushed with carbolic water, and afterwards be kept dressed with chloride of lime. , In warehouses, c&c., merchandise (except heavy machinery) must be moved so as to give access to walls for cleansing, &c., and to the floor on which it has been standing. All makeshift buildings and sheds in bad repair will be condemned, and must be pulled down and removed before the premises can be passed as clean. Occupants of premises which have been passed as clean will be furnished with a small placard, which they may affix in a conspicuous position, stating that the premises have been cleansed in accordance with the requirements of the Board. Solid Disinfectant.—Chloride of lime. Liquid Disinfectants.—Carbolic water—Miscible carbolic, ? pint. Water, 1 gallon. Sulphuric acid water.—Sulphuric acid, } pint. Water, 1 gallon. Carbolic limewhite.—Miscible carbolic, 4 pint to the gallon. By Order, C. A. SIMMS, Secretary. Department of Public Health, New South Wales. Form No. 246. TuEse premises have been cleansed and disinfected, in accordance with the requirements of the Board. C. A. SIMMS, Secretary. Address of premises, Date, eigrs.: Signed, Sanitary Inspector in Charge.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32183021_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
