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
Pike River, South Australia and is subject to statutory control for the purposes of “conservation and improvement of water quality” as per the requirements of the "River Murray Act 2003". The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Pike River had a population of 56 people. Pike River is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Chaffey and the local government area of the Renmark Paringa Council. Pike River, South Australia Pike River is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Riverland in the state’s east on the southern side