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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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