Plague at the Golden Gate

00:00:18 NARRATOR: January 20, 1900.

00:06:11 CHASE: Angel Island in San Francisco Bay

00:11:17 And he invented an enormous number of machines and devices

00:16:40 HARRY CHUCK: Chinatown is home and it always will be.

00:21:47 and he had to be 100% certain.

00:26:46 And this was a widely shared view at the time.

00:31:57 RANDALL: Kinyoun immediately sends

00:36:13 a case of sickness in their home.

00:40:53 by local officials, they might hide cases.

00:45:56 to refuse transportation to Chinese and Japanese

00:50:15 one group racially unfairly?

00:55:14 that somehow the heart of the problem were the Chinese.

00:59:42 arrived from Hawaii and docked at Angel Island.

01:04:26 "and we're going to save, you know, thousands,

01:09:10 CHASE: Dr. Kinyoun did the hard work

01:13:41 RANDALL: So he was working in the Marine Hospital Service,

01:18:02 more red marks from showing up on his map,

01:23:04 Well, this was serious.

01:27:52 Chinatown was almost completely renovated.

01:33:16 CHASE: With the sewer pipes ruptured,

01:37:26 NARRATOR: As Blue pondered the details of this case,

01:41:45 everyone got on board and did their part.

01:46:54 some of Blue's old shyness came flooding back and he said,

01:52:14 with PBS Passport and on Amazon Prime Video.