[28] At the height of the plague, around 1,000 persons were leaving Hong Kong daily. From Hong Kong the plague spread far and wide, creating a global pandemic that claimed millions of lives. Author Yang Jisheng is determined to change that with his book, Tombstone, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Yang Jisheng 'He comes across as a sweet old man, but he has a core of steel.' [20] Readings for the Week: The British Consul and Mr Taylor, North-China Herald, 18 Aug. 1893. The government responded to the meeting by forbidding searchers to enter Chinese households without permission, and by allowing patients to choose Chinese treatment in Chinese hospitals. [1] Shansi Notes, North China Herald (Shanghai), 17 March 1893; Charitable Subscription in Shansi, North-China Herald, 2 Dec 1892. Even as he wrote his paeans to the party, his job began to offer glimpses of the truth behind the facade. His recommendations were not acted upon on, save for the establishment of the Sanitary Board. He drove the truck out every day to sell dead bodies. It is "equivalent to 450 times the number of people killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and greater than the number of people killed in the first world war," he writes. Cannibalism in northern China between 1470 and 1911 [17] Lowson was given de facto charge to contain and combat the plague. ", The famine that killed up to 45 million people remains a taboo subject in China 50 years on. 9. "If the central government had known, I would have been in a lot of trouble." In 1950, Liu was released and he returned home. As many as 38 million people starved to death in the famine, which is 450 times the number of people killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki at the end of World War Two. For all his remorse and grief, he regarded the death as an individual family's tragedy: "I was 18 at the time and I only knew what the Communist party told me. Outbreak of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, Investigation on the cause of the disease, "Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China", Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, "Shropshire Regiment "Whitewash Brigade" emptying items from Chinese homes in Taipingshan, Hong Kong, and burning them on the street as an epidemic control measure during the 1894 plague outbreak", "The Lowson Diary: A Record of the Early Phase of the Hong Kong Bubonic Plague 1894", "Colonialism versus Nationalism: The Plague of Hong Kong in 1894", "An Outline of the History of Plague in Hong Kong", "Reorganizing Hospital Space: The 1894 Plague Epidemic in Hong Kong and the Germ Theory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1894_Hong_Kong_plague&oldid=1142222219, Articles containing Chinese-language text, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 3 (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories), This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 04:57.
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