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Portland, Oreg., 124
prejudice, 5–6, 7
Presidio district, 19, 174–75, 176, 183
Progress and Poverty (George), 31–32
Progressive Movement, 32
Promontory Summit, 31
prostitution, 104
public health, 62, 99, 108
public health officials, distrust of, 5
Public Health Reports, 66, 94, 112
Public Health Service, U.S., 9, 222–23, 224, 227–29, 230, 232, 233, 237, 239, 240, 242, 243
racial quarantine, 71–73
racism, 35–37, 46, 69, 81
railroads, 16, 31, 36
Rats, Live and History (Zinsser), 122
Rattery, 189, 190, 191, 195, 202, 206, 212, 213, 218
Red Cross, 230
Reinstein, Arthur, 184
Republicans, 148
Revolutionary War, 119
Reypen, W. K., 46
Riverside County, Calif., 221
Rockefeller, John D., 218
Roede, Anne, 95–96
Rome, Italy, 124
Roosevelt, Theodore, 146, 175, 182, 186, 194, 199
Rossi, Giuseppe, 163, 164
Rossi, Irene, 163–64, 166
Rossi, Luisa, 163, 164
Rossi family, 165
Rucker, Colby, 192, 201–2, 204, 213, 215, 216–17, 218, 221, 222, 226, 233, 245
Ruef, Abe, 144
Rush Medical College, 11
Ruvak, Alexander, 183
Sacramento, Calif., 29, 109
Sacramento Bee, 111
Sacramento River, 134, 135
Saggau, Marguerite, 136–37, 138, 140, 155
St. Louis, Mo., 226
St. Mary’s Hospital, 174
St. Paul, Minn., 226
St. Peter’s Basilica (Rome), 124
Samarano, Guadalupe, 236
Samarano, Luciana, 235, 236, 238–39
Samarano, Raúl, 236
Samarano, Roberto, 236, 237
Samarano family, 236–37, 238–39, 246
Samoa, 183–84
San Antonio, Tex., 230
San Bernardino County, Calif., 221
San Diego, Calif., 148
San Francisco, Calif., 11–12, 19, 23, 25, 26–43, 59, 60, 61, 94, 109, 111, 112, 123, 125, 126–27, 130, 132, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150–52, 153–54, 157, 158, 161–62, 167, 168, 169, 176–79, 180, 181–83, 194–96, 197–207, 211–15, 216, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222, 224, 226, 227, 233, 239, 241, 244, 245
Barbary Coast of, 31
Butchertown in, 203
cable cars in, 45, 47
Chinatown of, 39–43, 44–46, 48, 53, 57, 58, 61, 62–64, 66, 67–69, 73, 104, 116–17, 125, 126, 127–30, 132, 133, 136–37, 145–48, 150, 151, 154–55, 156, 157–58, 159, 160, 162–63, 164, 165, 168, 175, 176, 184, 186–87, 188, 198, 245
Chinatown quarantine lifted in, 87
Chinese residents of, 39
cholera in, 30
City Hall of, 33–34
corruption in, 33, 47, 76–77
distrust of vaccine in, 66–70
filth of, 30
fires in, 30
Gold Rush and, 27–31
Great White Fleet in, 208–10
health inspectors in, 62–64
Henry George on, 31–32
independent commission on plague in, 102–11
lack of public health in, 35
Latin Quarter in, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 184–93
Lobos Square refugee camp in, 203
Marina District in, 190
Mission District in, 190–91
1906 earthquake and fires in, 170–76, 190, 199
Noe Valley in, 190
paralyzing of, 45–46
plague discovered in, 38–43
plague in, 44–45, 56, 57–58
plague outbreak seen as hoax in, 46–47
population of, 29, 32, 34, 35, 70
Presidio district in, 19, 174–75, 176, 183
press denials of plague in, 58–59, 60–61
prosperity of, 32–33
public works projects in, 37–38
quarantine lifted in, 53–55
quarantine of Chinatown in, 43, 44–46, 53–55, 74–87
racism in, 35–36, 46
Richmond District in, 164
sanitation campaign in, 107, 110
sanitation in, 62
Shrady’s announcement of plague in, 80–81
South of Market neighborhood in, 186
spread of plague beyond Chinatown in, 95–96
spread of plague in, 64–65
tenements in, 40
tourism to, 70
unemployment in, 34–35
vaccination campaign in, 66–70
San Francisco, University of, 244–45
San Francisco Bay, 208
San Francisco Bulletin, 109, 171
San Francisco Call, 46–47, 60, 77, 79, 80, 91, 127, 130, 170, 212
San Francisco Chronicle, 40, 46, 47, 54, 56, 58, 59, 90, 97, 109, 142, 151, 193, 194, 197, 205, 206
San Francisco Examiner, 68, 109
San Francisco Mint, 33
San Francisco News Letter, 146
Sanitary Movement, 223
sanitation, 61–62
Sanitation Department, San Francisco, 57
San Joaquin County, Calif., 220
San Jose, Calif., 209
San Luis Obispo, Calif., 221
Sayers, Joseph D., 111–12
Scazzafava, Louis, 179–80
Schmitz, Eugene, 143–44, 174, 181, 186
Scotland, 125
Seattle, Wash., 151, 200, 210
Secret Service, U.S., 125, 143
Sedgwick, William Thompson, 15–16
Sedition Act (1918), 231
Senate, U.S., 244
septic shock, 52
Sherman, General, 14
Shon, Tom, 105
Shortlidge, Edmund, 210
Shrady, George F., 77–84
Chinatown journey of, 79
Gage and, 83–84
plague presence announced by, 80–81
presence of plague demanded by, 83–84
Shreve & Co., 173
Simond, Paul-Louis, 138–40, 155
Sina, Ibn, 138
Slater, E. T., 161–62
Slick Hat, 162–63
smallpox, 5, 18, 68
Snow, John, 62
Soto, Frank, 167
Soto, Mrs. Frank, 166–67
Souchon, Edmond, 150
South America, 202
South Carolina, 153, 224, 232, 243
Southern Pacific Company, 72
Southern Pacific Railroad, 82–83, 109, 158, 200, 201
Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital, 159, 161
Sowers, Z. T., 10
Spadafora, Pietra, 159
Spadafora, Pietro, 158–59
Spain, 130
Spanish American War, 13, 220
Spartanburg Pellagra Hospital, 224
Spreckels, Adolph, 193
Spreckels, Claus, 193
Spreckels, John D., 91
Stanford, Leland, 31, 36
Stanford University, 209
Stanislaus County, Calif., 220
Stansfield, Haltstead, 205–6
State Department, U.S., 194
Staten Island, N.Y., 244
quarantine station in, 17
steamships, 16
Sternberg, George, 10
Sterry, Nora, 238
Stevens, George, 236
Stockton, Calif., 148
Stockton, Robert, 235
Stone, Dr., 143
Strauss, Levi, 85
Stuyvesant Docks, New Orleans, 226
Sullivan, Dennis T., 171
Sullivan, Margaret, 171
Sunset, 175
Supreme Court, U.S., 31
Sutter, John, 26, 29
Sutter’s Fort, 26
Switzerland, 240
Sydney, Australia, 112
Taft, William Howard, 182, 222
Takagi, T. Shina, 129
Taylor, Bayard, 28
Taylor, Edward, 186, 198, 204, 213, 215
Texas, 61, 72, 123, 149, 153
Thompson, Robert, 37
toilets, 62
Toler, Burl, 245
Tomei, Oscar, 183
tongs, 39, 68, 69, 71
Torney, George, 176
traditional Chinese medicine, 41
transcontinental railroad, 31, 36
Treasury Department, U.S., 108
tuberculosis, 68
Tung Wah Dispensary, 134
Twin Towers Correctional Facility, 246
typhoid, 106
typhoid fever, 64, 68
Union Iron Works, 109
Union Labor Party, 144
U.S. Army Hospital, 176
U.S. Marine Hospital, 183
U.S. Mint, 172, 178
Utah, 208
vaccines, 16, 65
Vallejo, Calif., 209
van Leeuwenhoek, Anton, 16
Vaughn, Victor, 230
venereal disease, 104
Versailles, Treasury of, 231
Versailles Peace Conference, 231
Victoria, B.C., 59
Victoria, Queen of England, 62
Virginia, 61, 180, 199, 209, 223, 232
Virginia, University of, at Charlottesville, 121
Wai Wah Yee Yuen hospital, 7
W. & J. Sloane, 218
War Department, U.S., 89
War of 1812, 119
Washington, D.C., 9
Washington State, 208
Wasp, 206
Wells Fargo, 200
Western Pacific Railroad, 182
White, Joseph, 110, 114, 116–17, 125–26, 127, 133, 135, 155, 222
White, Mark, 145
Williamson, Dr., 150
Wilson, Edith, 232
Wilson, Frank, 42–43
Wilson, Woodrow, 229, 231, 232
Wilson administration, 232
Wing Sun, 42
Wing Tie, 75
Winters, Alexander, 135–36
Wizard, 183
“wolf doctors,” 63
Wong Chung, 133–35, 145–46, 147–48, 162
Wong Chut King, 38, 39–43, 45, 48, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 67, 79, 96
Wong Wai, 71, 90–91
Wong Woo, 41
Woods Clothing Factory, 163
Workingmen’s Party, 36
World’s Fair (Paris), 125
World War I, 225, 228, 231
Wo Tai, 141
Wyman, Walter, 9–10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 54–55, 56–57, 65, 66–67, 69, 70–71, 75, 77, 86, 90, 91, 92, 99–100, 112, 113, 114, 117–18, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 133, 136, 137, 140, 141, 145, 148, 149–52, 154, 155, 156, 160, 163, 165, 166, 167–68, 176, 180, 186, 195, 196, 212, 216, 221–22, 225
Gage’s delegation and, 109
independent commission and, 108–9
racial quarantine proposed by, 70–73
and resentment of Kinyoun, 10
yellow fever, 114
Yersin, Alexandre, 49–50, 138
yersiniabactin, 52
Yersinia pestis, 4
as designed to kill, 52
identification of, 48–52
Yosemite National Park, 246
Yoshiwara House, 128
Young, John P., 109
Yuk Hoy, 1–4, 6
Yung Wah Noui, 95
Yunnan Province, China, 4
Zhao Shen (god), 41
Zinsser, Hans, 122
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