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Morens, David M., and Anthony S. Fauci. “The Forgotten Forefather: Joseph James Kinyoun and the Founding of the National Institutes of Health.” MBio 3, no. 4 (June 2012).
CHAPTER 2: THE NIPPON MARU
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1899. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.
“Bubonic Plague on the Nippon Maru.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1899.
“Two Bodies off a Plague Ship.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 1899.
“The Plague in Politics.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 1899.
“Wyman Knows of No Plague.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 1899.
“Quarantine Is At Least Raised.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 1899.
“Germs and Politics: Two Kinds ofBacilli in the Plague Scare.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 1899.
“Child of the Quarantine.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 1899.
“It Was Not the Plague.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 1899.
“Health Board in Bad Light.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 1899.
Mohr, James. Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
CHAPTER 3: THE IMPERIAL CITY
Sutter, John. “The Discovery of Gold in California.” Hutchins’ California Magazine, November 1857. Accessed via the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco at http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html.
Platt, James. Platt’s Essays. Vol. 1. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1883.
Albertsson, Dean. “The Discovery of Gold in California as Viewed by New York and London.” The Pacific Spectator 3, no. 1 (Winter 1949). Accessed via the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco at http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/albertson.html.
“The Gold Hunter’s Farewell to His Wife.” Illinois State Journal, February 21, 1849. Accessed via the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco at http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist7/poem2.html.
Starr, Kevin, and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Precious Dust: The Saga of the Western Gold Rushes. New York: William Morrow, 1994.
Field, Stephen J. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches. Privately published, 1893.
“Barbary Coast 1887, An Odd Corner of San Francisco.” San Francisco News Letter, May 7, 1887. Accessed via the Virtual Museum of San Francisco at http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist12/barbarycoast.html.
George, Henry. “What the Railroad Will Bring Us.” Overland Monthly 1, no. 4 (October, 1868).
Nolte, Carl. “The Death of the Imperial City.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 1999.
Irwin, Will. The City That Was. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1908.
Chase, Marilyn. The Barbary Plague. New York: Random House, 2003.
Barnett, John. “Report of the Bureau of Building Condition of City Hall.” Accessed via the Virtual Museum of San Francisco at http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/repairs.html.
Jordan, David Starr. California and the Californians and the Alps of King–Kern Divide. San Francisco: The Whitaker–Ray Company, 1903.
Craddock, Susan. City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty and Deviance in San Francisco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Keevak, Michael. Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Volume XXXVIII. San Francisco: The History Company, 1890.
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. Accessed at http://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpress/.
Wallace, Kelly. “Forgotten Los Angeles History: The Chinese Massacre of 1871.” Los Angeles Public Library, May 19, 2017. Accessed at https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871.
“Remarks by Mr. Denis Kearney on Kearneyism in California.” American Commonwealth 2 (1899). Accessed via the Virtual Museum of San Francisco at http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist9/brycenotes.html.
Phelan, James. “The Ideal San Francisco.” San Francisco News Letter, 1897. Accessed via the Virtual Museum of California at http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/ideal.html.
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
CHAPTER 4: CRIMINAL IDIOCY
“Health Board is Forced to Abandon Its Bubonic Bluff.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 10, 1900.
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
“May Not Prove an Unmixed Evil.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 1900.
“Not Much Alarmed by the Plague.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 1900.
“The Bubonic Plague.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 9, 1900.
“At Work on Serum to Cure the Plague.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 1900.
“Abate the Nuisances.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 24, 1900.
“Put a Block on the Chinese Quarter.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 1900.
“Nothing but a Suspicion: Criminal Idiocy of the Phelan Health Board.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 1900.
“Plague Fake Is Exposed.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 1900.
“Police Keeping Quarantine Guard over Chinatown.” San Francisco Call, March 7, 1900.
“Chinatown Quarantined.” San Francisco Call, March 8, 1900.
Wright, Arnold. Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treasury Ports of China: Their History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources. London: Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1908.
Bibel, David J., and T. H. Chen. “Diagnosis of Plague: An Analysis of the Yersin–Kitasato Controversy. Bacteriological Reviews, September 1976.
Hawgood, Barbara J. “Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943): discoverer of the plague bacillus, explorer and agronomist.” Journal of Medical Biography 16, no. 3 (August 1, 2008).
“The Plague a Phantom.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 1900.
“No Plague Is Found: Fruitless Efforts of the Medical Inspectors in Chinatown.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, 1900.
“Bubonic Scare Has Collapsed.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 17, 1900.
Letters of Joseph J. Kinyoun. History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
CHAPTER 5: FAULT LINES
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1899. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.
“Pegging Away at the Plague: Health Board Bent on Making a Scare.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 1900.
“Health Board Brings Calamity on this City.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 1900.
“Found Not a Single Germ: Phelan’s Health Board Hunting for Plague.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 1900.
“Health Gang Wants Cash.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 25, 1900.
“A Crime Against Trade Interests.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, 1900.
“No Bubonic Plague in San Francisco.” San Francisco Call, April 3, 1900.
“What Plagues Us.” San Francisco Call, April 3, 1900.
“Should Suffer for the Plague.” San Francisco Call, April 4, 1900.
“Serious Charges Made.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 1900.
“Deprecate Plague Fake.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1900.
“Results of Fake Plague Spread by Examiner–Journal.” San Francisco Call, April 11, 1900.
“State Medicos Dined.” San Francisco Call, April 20, 1900.
“Submit Proofs or Retract.” San Francisco Call, May 24, 1900.
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Hoy, Suellen. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Letters of Joseph J. Kinyoun. History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Hawgood, Barbara J. “Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, CIE (1860–1930): prophylactic vaccination against cholera and bubonic plague in British India.” Journal of Medical Biography 15, no. 1 (February 2007).
“Plague in Bombay–Haffkine serum.” Public Health Reports, November 8, 1899.
“Court Asked to End the Bubonic Infamy.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 1900.
“Quarantine by the State Board.” San Francisco Call, May 29, 1900.
CHAPTER 6: QUARANTINE
“Board of Health Confesses to Famous Expert Who Crossed the Continent at the Insistence of the New York Herald and the Call That There Is No Bubonic Plague in This City.” San Francisco Call, May 29, 1900.
“Investigating Experts Inspect Chinatown and Fail to Find a Single Case of Any Illness.” San Francisco Call, May 30, 1900.
“Searching for Disease in Dens of Chinatown.” San Francisco Call, May 30, 1900.
“Sporadic Case of Bubonic Plague Discovered, but There Is Absolutely No Need for Alarm.” San Francisco Call, May 31, 1900.
“Dr. Crowley Would Burn Down Chinatown.” San Francisco Call, May 31, 1900.
“Danger of Plague Has Passed and Vigilance Will Insure Complete Safety of the City.” San Francisco Call, June 1, 1900.
“Phelan in the Role of a Faker.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 30, 1900.
“Plague Fake Put Through.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 30, 1900.
“Plague Fake on Last Legs.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 1900.
“No State Quarantine.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 1900.
“Governor and Plague: He and Not Kinyoun Appealed to by the Government.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 1900.
“Scott Not a Subscriber.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 5, 1900.
“He Swallowed a Thermometer.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 1900.
“Plague and the Courts.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 5, 1900.
“Three Blows That Stagger the Board of Plague Fakers.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 1900.
“Editorial.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 1900.
“Criticism Will Cure the Trouble.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 1900.
“Inviting Counties to Act.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 1900.
“Bad Faith to the City.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 1900.
“Statements by Physicians.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 1900.
“Cases Kept Undercover.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 1900.
Letters of Joseph J. Kinyoun. History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
“To Answer for Contempt.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 1900.
“Island Officials Puzzled.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, 1900.
“Governor Officially Brands Plague Scare a Fake.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 1900.
“Plague Fake at Its End.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 16, 1900.
CHAPTER 7: OUST THE FAKER
“Take Him Out At Once.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 1900.
“Desperate Kinyoun Commits New Outrage on San Francisco.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 1900.
“Quarantine Denounced.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 1900.
“Cited for Contempt.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 1900.
“Remove the Revengeful Man.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1900.
“Quarantine Fake Explodes: Kinyoun Pleads for Respite.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1900.
“His Recall Is Demanded: Angry Citizens Say That Kinyoun Must Leave.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 1900.
“Bad Faith on Kinyoun’s Part.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 1900.
“Dr Kinyoun Will Answer Today.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1900.
“Kinyoun Has Weak Defense.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1900.
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1899. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.
Letters of Joseph J. Kinyoun. History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
“Has Kinyoun Gone Mad?” San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 1900.
“Indecencies of Kinyoun.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 3, 1900.
“The Doom of Kinyoun.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 28, 1900.
CHAPTER 8: AN INFAMOUS COMPACT
“The Bubonic Plague.” Southern California Practitioner: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Allied Science 15, no. 7 (July 1900).
Kazanjian, Powel. “Frederick Novy and the 1901 San Francisco Plague Commission Investigation.” Clinical Infectious Diseases 55, no. 10 (November 15, 2012).
Link, Vernon B. “A History of Plague in the United States of America.” Public Health Monograph 26, 1955.
Kazanjian, Powel. Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017.
“The Governor’s Message and the Plague.” Occidental Medical Times 15, no. 2 (February 1901).
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1901. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.
Barker, Lewellys F. “On the Clinical Aspects of Plague.” American Journal of the Medical Sciences 122, no. 4 (October 1901).
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Letters of Joseph J. Kinyoun. History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
“The Plague, ‘American Medicine,’ and the ‘Philadelphia Medical Journal.’ ” Occidental Medical Times 15, no. 5 (May 1901).
“Bubonic Plague.” Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California. Thirty-First Annual Session, Sacramento, April 1901. Vol. 31.
CHAPTER 9: AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1901. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.
Letters of Rupert Lee Blue. Unpublished. Collection of J. Michael Hughes.
Chase, Marilyn. The Barbary Plague. New York: Random House, 2003.
Flexure, Abraham. “Medical Education in America.” Atlantic, June 1910.
Weissman, Gerald. “Rats, Lice, and Zinsser.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 11, no. 3 (March 2005).
Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History. New York: Transaction, 2017.
Larson, Erik. Isaac’s Storm. New York: Random House, 1999.
Medical Sentinel 7, no. 1 (January 1899).
“Mrs. Rupert Blue, the Guest.” San Francisco Call, May 24, 1901.
Sharp, Sally. “About Pretty Miss Mary Barber: Some Prominent Society Swells.” San Francisco Call, May 26, 1901.
“Santiago Hero on the Sumner: Lieutenant Victor Blue Home from Manila on Leave.” San Francisco Call, August 19, 1901.
“Thirty Four Perished in Montana Train Wreck.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 1901.
CHAPTER 10: A MOST PECULIAR TEAM
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1901. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.<
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Chase, Marilyn. The Barbary Plague. New York: Random House, 2003.
Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Sullivan, Robert. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
Berth, John. The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348–1350, A Brief History with Documents. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Warlock, Nukhet. Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Plague and Fleas.” Nature, November 21, 1907.
Cohn, Samuel K. “Epidemiology of the Black Death and Successive Waves of Plague.” Medical History Supplement 27 (2008).
Bray, R. S. Armies of Pestilence: The Impact of Disease on History. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1996.
Simon, M., M. L. Goldey, and P. D. Mouriquand. “Paul-Louis Simond and His Discovery of Plague Transmission by Rat Fleas: a Centenary.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 91, no. 2 (February 1998).
Gross, Ludwik. “How the Plague Bacillus and Its Transmutation Through Fleas Were Discovered: Reminiscences from My Years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.” Current Science 70, no. 12 (June 25, 1996).
Petrie, G. F. “Rats and Plague.” Scientific American, February 11, 1911.
Wyman, Walter. The Bubonic Plague. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900.
Letters of Rupert Lee Blue. Unpublished. Collection of J. Michael Hughes.
“The Bubonic Plague Fake.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 1901.
“Warns against Apathy on Chinese Exclusion.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, 1901.
“More about the Plague Fake.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 1901.
“The Chinese in Chinatown.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 20, 1902.
CHAPTER 11: AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
“Dr. Blue’s Wife Secures Divorce.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1902.
Douglas, Lawrence, and Taylor Hansen. “The Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco and the Smuggling of Chinese Immigrants Across the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1882–1930.” Journal of the Southwest 48, no. 1 (Spring 2006).
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1901. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.