Plague in Cape Town

How many reported cases and deaths were there?

• 807 reported cases, 389 deaths

• 915 reported cases, 557 deaths

• 2887 reported cases, 839 deaths

• 305 reported cases, 157 deaths

Where was the plague rumored to have come from?

• Ships of cargo and immigrants

• Rats and fleas

• Trade and commerce

• All of the these

 The _____ War pitted British Imperial interests against Afrikaner republicans hoping to South Africa's mineral and human resources

Employers opposed forced eviction of Africans to Uitvlugt because it was a sewage farm

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was a sewage farm, but employers opposed separation because they wanted cheap labor and low travel costs

William Simpson

• Studied typhoid fever in Cape Town

• Did not believe rat fleas spread plague

• Greatly aided the Plague Advisory Board

• Was a professor of hygiene at King’s College in London

The Haffkine vaccine was mandatory for Africans and voluntary for everyone else

• True

• False

What are the 4 standard types of plague control measures?

Answer explanation

Cleaning, isolation and quarantine, vaccination, and vector control

The Clean Party

• Had volunteers clean the streets themselves

• Was created following the smallpox epidemic

• Promoted novel sanitary discourse

• All of the above

Public Works Department built a plague hospital and isolation camp before plague had been declared

• True

• False

32,000 people died in _____ from typhoid, measles, and whooping cough