| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2 | The History Cooperative

James C. Mohr. Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 235. $30.00.
On January 20, 1900, a fire roared through Honolulu's Chinatown, fanned by strong winds. By the time it had died down, one-fifth of the buildings in Honolulu were destroyed and more than an eighth of Honolulu's people had lost their homes and businesses. The fire was started by health authorities who wanted a controlled destruction of a site linked with the plague, which they were trying to contain, but unexpected winds caused it to rage beyond their control.	1
Hawaii had heard about the bubonic plague spreading through China to Canton in 1893, and then to Hong Kong in 1894. The plague appeared in Southeast Asia and crossed over to India in 1895, reaching the Middle East by 1896. Europeans were so concerned about the plague that they organized conferences to discuss ways of containing its movement. The Hawaiian government responded to the danger by having sanitary officers in China and Japan inspect and approve passage for ships headed for Honolulu. Moreover, in Honolulu itself, the Board of Health inspected and quarantined all ships that had come from ports known to have outbreaks of plague.	. . .

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