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A comment on The San Francisco plague epidemic of 1900.

Re:The San Francisco plague epidemic of 1900 by Ericson2314 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:16PM (#19744112)
Wait, so the "white middle-class population" complained when Chinatown was quarantined?
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Re:The San Francisco plague epidemic of 1900 by rflrob on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:23PM (#19744145)
I haven’t read the book, but maybe Chinatown was a source of cheap domestic labor and services?
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Re:The San Francisco plague epidemic of 1900 by JamilD on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:26PM (#19744171)
The article implies so:

> They quarantined Chinatown, preventing any movement of food in, or of its inhabitants — many of them cleaners, cooks and labourers — out. […] Outside Chinatown, the middle-class white population was outraged by the disruption.

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Re:The San Francisco plague epidemic of 1900 by caprese on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:20AM (#19745529)
“labourers” is a euphamism for prostitutes

Make sense yet?

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