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Memorandum - City Engineer - silt pits in Darling Harbour and Blackwattle swamps and epidemics, 1882

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Unique IDA-00308006SeriesLetters Received [Municipal Council of Sydney]DateBetween 11th January 1882 and 12th January 1882Date qualifierexactFormatVolume - HardcoverDescriptionMemo. J Trevor Jones, City Engineer. This is a long report about the condition of the silt pits in Darling Harbour and Blackwattle Swamps, and their possible contribution to epidemics such as the recent appearance of smallpox. The pits were constructed to stop the detritus from the wheel traffic over macadamised roads from getting into the harbour and raising the harbour floor. However they receive the foul drainage of the city and are a source of noxious vapours, and bubbling and boiling can be seen on the surface of the pits. He recommends abolishing the silt pits and dredging the outfalls, using a Priestman's Crane and a silt punt. Then the sewerage would be allowed to flow uniformly into the harbour, as it is now doing from the Tank Stream etc, and discharged several feet below the surface of the water at low tide. This will also spare the frequent and tediously long process of emptying the pits and "the necessity of employing men to stand up to their waists in foul black slime breathing the most fetid gases and losing their health".LanguageEnglish (eng)Digitised recordYes

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CollectionDarling Harbour / TumbalongSmallpox

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