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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 14 Sep 2023 04:40:49
A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942"
English | ISBN: 150176683X | 2022 | 258 pages | PDF | 10 MB

In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the "rat-flea-man" theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging seeking to "rat-proof" their beliefs along with their houses.
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