Blue preached sanitation to contain the disease, but it was only when he focused his attack on the newly discovered source of the plague, infected rats and their fleas, that he finally eradicated it?truly one of the great, if little known, triumphs in American public health history. He won the trust of San Franciscans by shifting the government?s attack on the plague from the cool remove of the laboratory onto the streets, among the people it affected. : The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (9780375504969) by Chase, Marilyn and a great selection of similar New. When a second epidemic erupted five years later, the more self-possessed and charming Dr. He correctly diagnosed the plague, but because of his quarantine efforts, he was branded an alarmist and a racist, and was forced from his post. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the citys Gilded Age. An intellectually astute but autocratic scientist, Kinyoun lacked the diplomatic skill to manage the public health crisis successfully. Two months later, the first human case of bubonic plague surfaced in Chinatown.Initially in charge of the government?s response was Quarantine Officer Dr. Though the ship passed inspection, some of her stowaways?infected rats?escaped detection and made their way into the city?s sewer system. 9.2 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches 276 pages "The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year?s in 1900. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Book Synopsis : The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chases fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San.
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