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Rats in quarantine area, Sydney 1900

Rats in quarantine area, Sydney 1900

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[a147265 / PXE 94, 265]

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Health and welfare

The size and complexity of health and welfare services has increased exponentially since the early years of colonial settlement, but the partnership between governments and charities has remained at the heart of solutions to the problem of misfortune.

Epidemics

Bubonic plague epidemic 1900

Outbreak of plague that spread from the waterfront, when rats carried the plague throughout the city. Over eight months 303 cases were reported and 103 people died.

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The Rocks

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.