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Black Death at the Golden Gate, the race to save America from the bubonic plague, David K. Randall

Label
Black Death at the Golden Gate, the race to save America from the bubonic plague, David K. Randall
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-262) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Black Death at the Golden Gate
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1053999369
Responsibility statement
David K. Randall
Sub title
the race to save America from the bubonic plague
Summary
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin―a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable―or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk
Table Of Contents
Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire--, Across the sea, The Nippon Maru, The imperial city, Criminal idiocy, Fault lines, Quarantine, Oust the faker, An infamous compact, An impossible task, A most peculiar team, As soon as possible, The unpleasant past, For god's sake send food, Two percent, The worst corner of hell, One of California's adopted sons, Cast aside, A hero once more, Epilogue: How close we came
Target audience
general
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