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100 1 $aChase, Marilyn,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002153225
245 14 $aThe Barbary plague :$bthe Black Death in Victorian San Francisco /$cMarilyn Chase.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2003.
300 $aviii, 276 pages :$bmap ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.
520 1 $a"The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year's in 1900. Though the ship passed inspection, some of her stowaways - infected rats - escaped detection and made their way into the city's sewer system. 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. Joseph Kinyoun. An intellectually astute but autocratic scientist, Kinyoun lacked the diplomatic skill to manage the public health crisis successfully. 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. When a second epidemic erupted five years later, the more self-possessed and charming Dr. Rupert Blue was placed in command. 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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPlague$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory$y20th century.
600 12 $aKinyoun, Joseph J.$q(Joseph James),$d1860-1919.
600 12 $aBlue, Rupert Lee,$d1868-1948.
650 12 $aDisease Outbreaks$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004196Q000266
650 12 $aPlague$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010930Q000266
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049673
651 2 $aSan Francisco.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012495
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002068102.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/2002068102.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0412/2002068102.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy038/2002068102.html
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