Nationalist Movement in Indo – China Notes

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7. HYGIENE, DISEASE AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE

  1. How did plague strike Hanoi? 
  • French wanted to create a Modern Vietnam, and so they decided to rebuild Hanoi.
  • The modern architecture & engineering skills were used to make the modern city.
  • But in 1903 the modern part of Hanoi was struck by bubonic plague.
  • The refuse from the old city drained straight out into the river or during heavy rain or flood, overflowed into the street.
  • The large sewers in the modern part of the city a symbol of modernity were an ideal and protected breeding ground or rats.

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