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Devonshire Street Remodelling and Housing Scheme

Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909

Bubonic plague epidemic 1900

Boyce, Francis Bertie

'Don't worry. He only wants to spend 400 million pounds. But watch out when he says he's going to spend 400,000 pounds.'

Backyards, Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900

Demolition of Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900

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Slum clearances

Devonshire Street Remodelling and Housing Scheme

Slum clearance plan for the area bounded by Devonshire, Marlborough, Lansdowne, Belvoir and Clisdell streets in Surry Hills. Demolition of over 240 homes and businesses along the narrow streets began in the 1950s.

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Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909

Report of the commission of 1908 which emphasised the practical issues of traffic, beautification, slum areas and housing reform, and the future growth of the city.

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Bubonic plague epidemic 1900

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Outbreak of bubonic plague that spread from the waterfront as rats carried the disease throughout the city. Over eight months in 1900, 303 cases were reported and 103 people died. Millers Point resident Arthur H Payne (Paine) was diagnosed on Saturday, January 19 with the first reported case of plague in Sydney. He and his family were sent to the Quarantine Station on January 24, and their house in Ferry Lane was fumigated. He recovered and was released on Sunday, February 18. The first recorded death from plague in Sydney was that of Captain Thomas Dudley who died on February 22 at his home in Birchgrove and was buried at the Quarantine Station on February 24. In September the city was declared free of plague and the yellow flag that had been flown at the Quarantine Station was taken down. Numerous other outbreaks took place in subsequent years.

Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority

Statutory authority set up to manage and redevelop The Rocks area, and given most of the state-owned property in the area. Its plans for redevelopment were successfully resisted by heritage enthusiasts and the Builders Labourers Federation Green Bans. Much of its work was taken over by the new Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority in 1999.

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