Mad dogs and Englishmen
biblioasia
Vol.16
Issue 01
Apr-Jun 2020
10/ The Scourge of Leprosy 16/ Malay Seals 22/ Postcards Of History
28/ Keong Road Memories 32/ Architectural Snapshots 50/ A Chinese Knight
What gives me some comfort is that throughout history, humankind has faced other fatal infectious diseases and ultimately prevailed. In our cover story, Timothy P. Barnard looks at the deadly rabies outbreak in late 19th-century Singapore. Rabies caused a great scare here and led to the culling of over 22,000 dogs, but eventually it was eradicated from our shores.