Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations ix -- Maps -- 1. Senegal 6 -- 2. Saint-Louis 26 -- 3. St. Louis and Isolation Camps 75 -- 4. The Evolution of the Bubonic Plague Epidemic in Saint-Louis 198 -- Figures -- 1.1 Saint-Louis Population Growth, 1787-1921 20 -- 3.1 Daily Reported Cholera Deaths, Saint-Louis, 1868 99 -- 3.2 Daily Reported Cholera Deaths, Saint-Louis, 1893 113 -- 6.1 Evacuations of the Residents of Guet-Ndar, Saint-Louis, 1918 201 -- Tables -- 1.1 Ethnic/Racial Distribution of the Population (no Troops or Navy) 21 -- 1.2 Epidemics and Diverse Scourges, Senegal, 1859-1927 34 -- 1.3 The Medical Staff in Senegal, 1857-1867 38 -- 1.4 The Medical Staff in Senegal, 1873-1894 39 -- 1.5 Distribution of Catholic Nuns in Medical Facilities in Saint-Louis 40 -- 2.1 Yellow Fever Mortality in Saint-Louis in 1881 62 -- 2.2 Recapitulation: Official Mortality from Yellow Fever and Cholera,1867-1881 63 -- 2.3 The Quarantines and Cordons Sanitaires in Saint-Louis 76 -- 3.1 Changing Level of Salt in the Senegal River, Saint-Louis, 1851-1852(per 100 gr.) 94 -- 3.2 Distribution of Water to Government Employees, Saint-Louis, 1873 95 -- 3.3 Daily Reported Cholera Deaths, Saint-Louis, 1868 97 -- 3.4 Distribution of Deaths from Cholera, Saint-Louis, 1868 98 -- 3.5 The Revised Estimate of the Badois Contract (in francs) 107 -- 3.6 The Cost of Bathing at the Military Hospital, Saint-Louis, 1892 (in francs) 109 -- 3.7 Daily Reported Cholera Deaths, Saint-Louis, 1893 112 -- Plates -- 1. The Faidherbe Bridge next to the old bridge 154 -- 2 A street in Saint-Louis 155 -- 3 A street in Saint-Louis 156 -- 4 A slum area at the south end of the city island 157 -- 5 A view of Guet-Ndar slum 158 -- 6 The small arm of the Senegal River 159 -- 7 A mule-drawn cart in Ndar-Toute quarter 160 -- 8 The Grotte de Lourdes in Sor 161.

9 The monument to the victims of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic 162 -- 10 Water tank in Sor 163 -- Acknowledgments xi -- Abbreviations xv -- Introduction: Setting, Themes, and Conceptual Perspectives 1 -- 1. The Making of a Colonial City 16 -- 2. The "White Man's Disease": The Great Yellow Fever Epidemics,1867-1900 50 -- 3. The "Black Man's Disease": Cholera and Social Inequality, 1868-1899 88 -- 4. A Conflict of Interests among Commerce, Competing Conceptions ofPublic Health, and Civil Liberties, 1882-1901 120 -- 5. The Scientific Missions to Senegal and Brazil and the New Paradigm,1901-1912 164 -- 6. Plague and Violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920 185 -- Conclusion 208 -- Sources 211 -- Index 231.