Prevention of Plague: Instructions to Householders, issued by the NSW Department of Public Health, 1900

Read a historic pamphlet from the Rare Books Collection issued by the New South Wales Department of Public Health during the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney.

Details: Prevention of plague. Instructions to householders issued by the Department of Public Health, 1st March, 1900. Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer.

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Read a historic pamphlet from the Rare Books Collection issued by the New South Wales Department of Public Health during the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney.

Read more about Sydney's bubonic plague:

“Plague is present in Sydney” – How the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak compares to COVID-19

The Black Death

COVID-19 and zoonotic diseases

“Plague is present in Sydney” – How the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak compares to COVID-19

Burial, cremation or donation

The Ramsar Convention

Freshwater Saltwater

Drinking Water

Preparing the body for disposal

$500,000 Grant to Protect Coral Reefs from Crown of Thorns Starfish

Colonisation of NSW by foreign marine species

Australian animal features: Stage 2 and Stage 3

Dr Stephanie Partridge: improving youth wellbeing

NSW Department of Primary Industries: Sharks