DETAILED NOTES ON KALGOORLIE WA

“When gold was discovered at Fly Flat close to Coolgardie in 1892, then at Hannan's (later on Kalgoorlie) in 1893, countless numbers flocked to your arid Goldfields. The lack of clean drinking water was a large problem and resulted in bad sanitation, ailments for instance typhoid and many deaths … In the 1890s, the Goldfields area boomed as a