DCHP-3

China plague

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1935
. . . he held a position of considerable importance, having secured the contract for burying Chinamen dead of the China plague, a mysterious malady, little understood, which began in the legs that immediately turned black, then mounted to the heart and carried off its victims in a few hours: it did not attack the whites. . . .