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File Size: 830 KB
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (March 18, 2003)
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
Sold by: Random House LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B004SOVC42
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The bubonic plague in San Francisco? Chinatown quarantined with barbed wire? Hawaii's Chinatown burned to the ground due to plague? Common history only seems to cover the events of 1849 and 1906, leaving a huge gap of information between. I've lived in San Francisco Bay Area my entire life and never heard of the bubonic plague outbreak until recently. This shed light on a forgotten event in San Francisco's history.The plague was brought over in 1900 on the SS Australia, and due to a number of factors, the plague gained a foothold in the US. The wealthy elite (politicians and merchants) vehemently denied plague diagnosis because they were more concern with their pocketbooks. And even when it was acknowledged, it was viewed as an 'Asian problem' and was blamed on the Chinese. It would take years to stamp out (1908). And because of the racial prejudice and greed of the era, bubonic plague spread to the wildlife (squirrels, groundhogs, etc) and still persists to this day.At first I wasn't sure about the narrative style. I was looking for a straight non-fiction account of facts. So it took awhile to get to the fiction like prose and poetic descriptions. But once the story got going, I couldn't put it down. It also gave the victims of plague a name and face instead of just numbers. It's rich with scientific, medical, and racial details of the era. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in history and epidemics.
I am a huge fan of books about fighting disease, so this was a great book. Plus, it is more than a micro-history of plague at the turn of the century in San Francisco. It also includes a brief history of the evolution of our understanding of the plague (and some huge discoveries about the disease occurred in the ~8 years that this book covers), a history of San Francisco, a history of Chinese immigration into the area (and the resulting xenophobia), a history of public health and how it evolved, a brief discussion of the 1906 earthquake, an exposé of government corruption, etc, etc. It was fascinating and interesting.I am giving it five stars because the subject matter was interesting, and the book was very readable (and not too technical in nature - sometimes books about disease can get bogged down in technical detail). If you like reading books about the history of disease, you will definitely like this one. If you are coming to this book hoping for it to be like "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston (about ebola), you will find that the pace is not quite as brisk. Plague is a terrible disease, and its eruption in San Francisco in 1900 was definitely considered an epidemic, but since it is spread by rat fleas and not as easily by person-to-person contact (though some forms of the disease are highly contagious), some of the edge-of-your-seat fear is not present the same way it is in a book about, say, ebola or smallpox. But I still loved the book and would recommend it to other armchair medical enthusiasts or history buffs.
Indeed a page turner. It can also be said a harbinger for today's problems only in a different venue. There was at the time a pestilence in the making. However the victims were mostly a minority that was held in contempt--the Chinese. Few whites were affected. Thus the state went into full denial mode. The state was even totally obstructionist in finding relief for the problem. The local authorities initially were ham fisted and thus incurred the wrath of the Chinese. Then as now the courts intervened without considering the consequences. It was only when the problem spread to the white populace that the problem was confronted. In fairness though it can be rightfully said that science intervened to find a somewhat solution to the problem. I do wish to suggest that indeed there are lessons to be learned from this situation that can be applied to todays sociological disquietness.
This new work, The Barbary Plague: The Black Death In Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase will soon become the standard reference on this fascinating chapter in California history. It is the first book length study covering the two plague outbreaks which visited San Francisco between 1900 and 1909, and it stands alone in its ability to tell this story. Chase�s writing is wonderfully easy to read and breathes life into a history forgotten to all but a few medical historians. In addition to the excellent writing, Chase�s research into her subject is on par with the best academic standards. She not only has an expert�s grasp on the history but has brought the full force of her professional career as a science and medicine reporter with the Wall Street Journal to the telling of the tale.In The Barbary Plague Chase is able to tell the story of the two plague outbreaks from the perspective of the two United States public health officers most intimately associated with the story, Joseph J. Kinyoun, founder of the NIH, and Rubert Blue, who�s success in dealing with the 1907 plague outbreak in San Francisco lead to his elevation to the position of Surgeon General. Both men were sent by the federal government to San Francisco to fight the plague. Kinyoun�s career with the public health service was destroyed when his scientific professionalism clashed with the political machinery in California that was determined to bury the truth in 1900. Blue�s career, on the other hand, was lifted up to the heights by his ability to work the prevailing political winds of 1907 to his advantage.Chase asserts that Blue had greater political skill than Kinyoun and that their different fates prove this out. To a certain extent I think this is true, but there were other factors at play. The political climate that the two men worked in was substantially different. Kinyoun faced a hostile political landscaped financed by a defensive business community, lead by the Southern Pacific Railroad, trying to protect its profits. To defend itself California�s business community decided to deny the existence of plague. By the time Blue faced the epidemic, the business community had come to the realization that they could not hide from the outbreak and needed to meet it head on. Where Kinyoun faced extreme hostility, Blue was, in the end, given complete cooperation. Chase describes this change in political climate, but she doesn�t provide the reader with the full significance of its meaning to Kinyoun and Blue..While this is an excellent book, it does have a few points where historians might quibble. For instance, Chase suggests that the plague was introduced to San Francisco via the rats abroad the ship Australia which arrived from Asia at the beginning of January 1900. The source for her proposition is a note in a letter written by Joseph Kinyoun to his uncle, Dr. Preston Bailhache, in August of 1900. In my own research on the topic, I had an "ahaa!" moment when I read Kinyoun�s suspicion about the Australia. The problem, from a historical or epidemiological perspective, is that there are so many other suspect rats from so many other ships arriving in San Francisco that it is impossible to prove.The plague pandemic had been spreading out of China since 1894. The United States public health service, then known as the Marine Hospital Service, had taken over San Francisco�s quarantine inspection in 1897 in anticipation of the plague�s arrival and had been on the lookout for three years when the first case in the city was confirmed. Kinyoun certainly never officially claimed that the Australia was the source of San Francisco�s plague. From an academic standpoint, other researchers who have read Kinyoun�s letter decided that his suspicion was unsubstantiated and would have to remain an interesting historical footnote. Chase and her publisher decided that it was tasty to be able to say that they had found that source of San Francisco�s epidemic, and it makes good reading to be sure.Quibbles aside, The Barbary Plague is peerless in its presentation of this amazing story. For history buffs and academics, Chase�s book sets the benchmark for telling the story of San Francisco�s brush with the Black Death.
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