City Baths, Melbourne City Baths, Melbourne City Baths in Melbourne, Australia, is an architecturally and historically significant building. It is located at 420 Swanston Street. The triangular site between Swanston, Victoria and Franklin streets was reserved for a public bath facility in 1850. Melbourne City Council opened the first City Baths on 9 January 1860, which housed public baths. The objective was to stop people from bathing in the Yarra River, which by the 1850s had become quite polluted and the cause of an epidemic of typhoid fever which hit the city resulting in many deaths. However, people continued to swim and drink
Hill River (South Australia) and named several important rivers of South Australia, including the adjacent Hutt River and Wakefield River. A 1908 news article conversely credits the obscure William Hill with naming Hill River after himself. The issue was finally resolved in 2015 with the publication of "John Hill : South Australia's Discoverer of Rivers", which emphatically concludes that Eyre discovered the river on 5 June 1839 and named it after John Hill, the explorer who discovered the Clare Valley Hill River (South Australia) The Hill River is an ephemeral river located in the Mid North region of the Australian state of South Australia.