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?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
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.