The British settlements in New South Wales Australia and in Sydney in the late 1800s experienced an epidemic of Euro-smallpox (or chickenpox), a Measles Epidemic in 1867, The Scarlet Fever epidemic of the 1870s, a second smallpox epidemic in 1881 to 1882, Epidemic Typhus, cases of sexually transmitted diseases (European Venereal Diseases), and then a sweep of British Influenza starting off in 1890 to 1891 which then eventually spread to New Zealand through Auckland. If the disease wasnt carried by the Imperial British crews themselves it would find another way through by way of the Cargo Rat.
In a signed order by Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson for New South Wales Australia, all dead rats in numbers were to be reported, and it was written that British commoners who did not help fix the problems created by those in the state, to share liability with the Government, were to be prosecuted and thrown into prisons, the same prisons which were also breeding grounds for more infections. The British Australian state had no solutions to the problems except to burn those dead bodies that were infected, and to keep the live sick people in contained lockedowned areas in hospitals until they died. New South Wales did remain under Penal Colony law conditions until Socialists movements began taking hold during the Great Australian Depression of the 1920s.