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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 29, 1929
Page
5
The Sunshine Band and Salvation Army led a Sunday afternoon gathering in the Public Gardens to kick off a hospital and charity fundraising effort. Speakers urged broader, fairer funding and praised volunteers, noting past shortfalls and the need for organized, systematized giving to support hospitals and the needy.
A reader questions council steps to prevent disease spread via municipal library books. They cite Look for outbreaks in homes with contagious illness and urge fumigation or cleaning of books. The letter urges council action before policing other libraries and ends with safety advocacy.
The shire secretary Mr de bar Hargreaves, also a Health Inspector, ordered immediate steps. He instructed Health Inspector Mr WJ Wallis to report every contagious disease to librarian Mr BR Grant and to check if any library books had been issued to the household Hverfed. If so, those books would be fumigated before reissuing, with no new books issued except on medical report. Hargreaves assured rubber seals to prevent disease spread through municipal library precautions.
Public Health Commissioner HN Fentony told Mr. Margeesves on Tuesday that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting disease can be spread by library books. Dr Featonby praised local measures and said he would keep the matter under advisement for possible action.
Local donors contributed £6 11s 34d in copper, between 11s and 12s. This is praised as valuable effort, though last year’s total was £7 16s 3d.
The Sunshine Advocate promotes a Christmas Greeting card that urges a reverent, pious duty to relatives and friends beyond the ordinary card, offering a quick retelling of a promotional ad.
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