What the records say
- When
- 1900 – 1904
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 37.77° N, 122.42° W
- Description
- early 20th-century epidemic in the USA
- Deaths
- 119
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1900–1904 San Francisco plague
Early 20th-century epidemic in the US
The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by California's Republican governor Henry Gage.
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