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Dec 28, 2023 · 1900 : The first reported incident of plague in the continental United States is found in the Chinese slums or “Chinatown” of San Francisco. June 1900: California is placed under quarantine, until the Governor Henry Gage persuades the federal government to lift the ban.
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In 1900, the bubonic plague is found at San Francisco's...
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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1913-1920,...
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At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ).
Apr 18, 2024 · An estimated 7.9 earthquake rocked the San Andreas fault, causing the immediate collapse of many buildings in San Francisco’s downtown. That, in turn, began a fire that quickly spread throughout the city. It was a momentous day in the history of the Bay Area.
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- The Black Plague First Arrives on U.S. Territory
- The Spread of The San Francisco Plague
- A Plague of Government Corruption
- Racist Motivations and A Lawsuit
- Resurgence and Persistence
After the Black Plague claimed as many as 200 million lives in 14th-century Europe, multiple outbreaks appeared in the Yunnan region of southwest China well into the late 1700s. Then, a third plague pandemichit central and eastern Asia in 1855, killing upwards of 15 million people. By 1894, the plague had spread to Hong Kong, a large port hub that ...
The first person to die from the bubonic plague in the continental U.S. was a lumber yard owner and Chinese immigrant named Wong Chut King, who lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown district. It was just months after the anti-plague fires ravaged Honolulu, March 6, 1900. King had run a high fever, become delirious, and had painfully swollen lymph node...
City and state politicians were afraid that news of the plague would harm the local economy and so they conspired to paint Kinyoun’s claims as a hoax. “There was a very real threat that California’s $40 million fresh produce industry… would be lost,” explained Marilyn Chase, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and author of ...
But besides discrediting Kinyoun, one of the more nefarious ways in which politicians sought to deny the existence of the San Francisco plague was to convince white residents that the plague only infected those of Asian ancestry. By 1880, 16 percent of San Francisco’s population was Chinese. Immigrants had arrived in the state looking for work buil...
By 1901, Kinyoun was replaced by another medical professional named Rupert Blue who was as committed to bringing attention to the San Francisco plague as Kinyoun had been. Building upon early European studies on the correlation between rat die-off and the spread of disease, Blue shifted his focus to rodent extermination in order to combat the city’...
- Natasha Ishak
Sep 10, 2019 · An editorial cartoon shows Joseph Kinyoun being kicked out of San Francisco’s Marine Hospital Service, October 15, 1900. Wikimedia Commons. But news of the plague had begun to leak, first in a medical journal, then in the Sacramento Bee, and finally in national newspapers.
Jun 12, 2006 · The massive earthquake that shook San Francisco to its core in the early hours of April 18, 1906, ignited a howling blaze that threatened total destruction of the city. Action intended to save the city may have added to the chaos, injuries, deaths and damage.
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Apr 15, 2016 · The earthquake, unfortunately, was only the beginning. Toppled wood and coal stoves, as well as broken gas lines and chimneys, precipitated fires all over San Francisco. At around 10:30 a.m., for...
