Dictionary of Sydney
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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Sanitation

Subject
Public lavatories
Royal Commission into Noxious and Offensive Trades 1882
Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act 1894
Sydney Slaughter-houses Act 1849
Public Toilet Hyde Park North
Public Toilet Hyde Park South
Public Toilet Macquarie Place
Public Toilet The Rocks
Public Toilet Wynyard Park
Royal Commission into Noxious and Offensive Trades 1882
Noxious Traders Association
Garbage Transfer Station Artarmon
Automated public toilet Hyde Park 2007
Backyards, Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900
Central Square before building of railway with Benevolent Hospital in background
Cleansing the street 1900
Cleansing the streets 1900
Demolition of men's underground public toilet at Druitt Street in front of the Queen Victoria Building, 1933
Detail of architectural drawing of Wynyard Park underground convenience 1911
First page of letter from City Health Officer Henry Graham to the City of Sydney Council concerning Devonshire Street Cemetery, 15 January 1860
Government and General Orders concerning the closure of the Old Burial Ground and the opening of Devonshire Street Cemetery 22 January 1820
Government officials and resident with cockatoo at the rear of 14 May Street, Ultimo 1900
Letter. Talbot & Son, Circular Quay, complain of the stench from the closets & urinals under Moore's Steps and ask that they be removed. Cannot be complied with. April 1872
Making the new sewer in Pitt Street 1857
Memo from City Health Officer GF Dansey about condition of the Dead House, Circular Quay, 1879
Men's convenience, Taylor Square c1934
Men's public toilet, Green Park, Darlinghurst c1934
Plan of underground public toilet at Macquarie Reserve c1907
Professional ratcatchers 1900
Rats in quarantine area, Sydney 1900
Smallpox precautions in Bellevue Street, Surry Hills 1881
The Bubonic Plague - Wash and Pray! April 1900
Urinal Observatory Hill 1968