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
Bow River (Western Australia) Bow River (Western Australia) The Bow River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, not to be confused with Bow River in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. The river rises on the eastern edge of the Frankland State Forest and flows in a southerly direction discharging into Irwin Inlet, which opens to the Southern Ocean at Foul Bay. Bow River is a fresh water river with potential to be used as a water source in the area. The hamlet of Bow Bridge, once a timber milling and farming settlement, is located where the South