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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?
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.