Wang Leonard Kuan-Pei
John Sealy School of Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2023 Apr 27;36(4):534-538. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2023.2204289. eCollection 2023.
Galveston, Texas is one of the oldest seaport cities in the Gulf of Mexico west of New Orleans, making it a historically prime location for disease outbreaks. The bubonic plague bacterium, , likely spread to Galveston via infected rats and fleas on steamboats. Known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague infected 17 Galvestonians from 1920 to 1921. This article examines the "War on Rats," the public health response to the Galveston bubonic plague outbreak in the 1920s. As part of public health practices at the time, the rat-proofing of buildings provides a glimpse into the intersection of public health and architecture. This exploration of the war on rats in Galveston offers insights into 20th-century examples of cross-disciplinary collaboration to promote human health in urban contexts.
得克萨斯州加尔维斯顿是新奥尔良以西墨西哥湾最古老的海港城市之一，这使其在历史上成为疾病爆发的主要地点。腺鼠疫杆菌很可能是通过蒸汽船上受感染的老鼠和跳蚤传播到加尔维斯顿的。腺鼠疫被称为黑死病，在1920年至1921年期间感染了17名加尔维斯顿人。本文探讨了“灭鼠之战”，即20世纪20年代针对加尔维斯顿腺鼠疫爆发的公共卫生应对措施。作为当时公共卫生实践的一部分，建筑物的防鼠措施让我们得以一窥公共卫生与建筑的交叉领域。对加尔维斯顿灭鼠之战的探索为20世纪在城市环境中促进人类健康的跨学科合作实例提供了见解。
