The Melbourne Cityscape in the 1880s

Despite all of this opulence and the ornate architecture, there's a smelly underside to Melbourne. The city had typhoid rates that were as bad as just about any city in the world. So while they were boasting of being marvellous Melbourne, the Sydney Bulletin was calling it marvellous because of the pongs in the streets. We still didn't have underground sewage. And so how much did the cityscape change from the early 1880s to the peak about 1890? Oh, quite a lot. It really advances pretty rapidly through that decade.