Chasing Secrets (23 page)

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Crichton, Judy,
America 1900
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998) 28.

2
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Barker, Malcolm E.,
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(San Francisco: Londonborn Publications, 1996) 27.

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Crichton,
America 1900,
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4
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5
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Craddock, Susan,
City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000) 55.

6
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Chase, Marilyn,
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
(New York: Random House, 2003) 9.

7
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“The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco,”
sfmuseum.net/hist9/cook.html
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8
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Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
46.

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Hawkins, Cora Frear,
Buggies, Blizzards and Babies
(Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1971) 72.

10
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Hertzler, Arthur E., M.D.,
The Horse and Buggy Doctor
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1938) 126.

11
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Barnett, S. Anthony,
The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them
(Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2001) 32.

12
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Marriott, Edward,
Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry and the Scourge That Won't Go Away
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004) 230.

13
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Marion, Jay,
A History of the California Academy of Medicine, 1870–1930
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the California Academy of Medicine 1930) 85.

14
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Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
47.

15
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San Francisco Call,
3.11.1900,
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Todd, Frank Morton,
Eradicating Plague from San Francisco: Report of the Citizens' Health Committee
(San Francisco: Press of C. A. Murdock, 1909) 21.

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Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
48–49.

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Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
50.

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Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
19.

20
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Chung Sai Yat Po
, March 7, 1900 p. 1. (in Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
19.)

21
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Chase,
The Barbary Plague,
54.

22
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Marriott,
Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry and the Scourge That Won't Go Away
13.

23
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Echenberg, Myron,
Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague Between 1894 and 1901
(New York: New York University Press, 2007) 231.

24
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Sullivan, Robert,
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2004) 157.

25
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Craddock,
City of Plagues,
18.

1900

January 2.
San Francisco dock. The steamer
Australia
arrives from Honolulu, where the plague has struck. Rats from the ship are believed to run up the sewers to Chinatown.

January–February.
Chinatown. Chinese observe an inordinate number of rats dying.

March 6.
Chinatown. A man dies from the plague in San Francisco. First known case here.

March 7.
Angel Island. Dr. Kinyoun, the wolf doctor, injects plague from the dead man into a rat, two guinea pigs, and a monkey.

March 7–10.
First Chinatown quarantine.

March 12.
Angel Island. The rat and the guinea pigs die.

March 13.
Angel Island. The monkey dies.

March–May.
More deaths from the plague.

May 29–June 15.
Second Chinatown quarantine.

June 14.
The governor of California (Governor Gage) and the deans of three medical schools sign a manifesto that states there is no plague in San Francisco.

1902–1908

November 1902.
The city begins to try to get its rat population under control.

February 1905.
San Francisco's first plague outbreak is declared over.

April 18, 1906.
The San Francisco Earthquake and fire rip the city apart. In the ensuing days, rats gain a foothold again and the plague returns with a vengeance.

November 1908.
The plague is finally vanquished in San Francisco.