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Squalid houses in Batson's Lane 1900

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Squalid houses in Batson's Lane 1900

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State Library of New South Wales

[a147034 / PXE 90, 34]

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Epidemics

From the new European diseases that devastated Sydney's Aboriginal people in the eighteenth century, through subsequent epidemics of measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, influenza and HIV, Sydney has faced major threats from epidemic disease. Religion, media, and public health responses influenced the degree of panic and scapegoating that took place, though effective treatments were not in place until well into the twentieth century.

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