Plague at the Golden Gate
Dr. Joseph Kinyoun
Dr. Joseph Kinyoun created the Hygienic Laboratory, the nation’s first federal laboratory of medical bacteriology which later became the National Institutes of Health.
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The Chinese Six Companies
On May 28, 1900, San Francisco policemen formed a perimeter around Chinatown.
Ng Poon Chew
Ng Poon Chew was a writer, a publisher and an advocate for Chinese American civil rights.
San Francisco’s Bubonic Plague Cover-up
Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
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