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Practices used against the plague in the 1900s
In the early 1900s despite the increasing knowledge of germ theory and the rapid growth of scientific communities around the prevention of major disease, there was little the international communities could do other then create standard protocols for how to deal with and outbreak of the plague. In 1897 and 1903, two conventions were held known as International Sanitary Conferences; the first in Venice and the second in Paris, to help deal with threat of the new outbreaks of the bubonic plague. From these conventions was formed an international disease convention supervised by the Office International D'hygiene Publique (OIHP) in Paris which would be one of the major predecessors of the League of Nations health organization. From these conventions came the standard Protocols used in dealing with the bubonic plague throughout the early 1900s. These protocols were often old fashioned and were generally summarized as the 3 "I's": Isolation, Incineration, and Inoculation. Isolation is a standard protocol of many modern disease outbreaks, but the usage of incineration was a protocol of disease control used most uniquely for dealing with the bubonic plague. Burning was used often to deal with The bubonic Plague as it was believed to the be most effective way to eliminate strains of the disease from places inhabited by the infected. But it was also a problematic technique as it led to the the creation of many out of control fires that devastated communities the most notable being the great fire in Honolulu which devastated the Chinatown community there. Inoculation was the usage of plague vaccines of which many were invented and some even proved to be extremely effective in their use in India being recorded to have over a 50% efficacy.

Social Implications of the Third Plague Pandemic
Much historical evidence shows that the Third Plague Pandemic has many world wide cases of revealing or creating major social issues and racial Inequalities. Many of the Ports Infected during the plague were at the time British held colonies, this meant that in these colonies the British Empire was responsible for most of the actions used to prevent the disease. Due to this the British often ended up enforcing western hygiene and medical practices and radical quarantine measures in countries and provinces such as India, South Africa and Hong Kong. Many of these imposed western sanitary measures were new to these areas and caused natives fear and apprehension of the British government. In India harsh quarantines were initially implemented by the British governments leading to Indian resentment of quarantine measures. In South Africa when the plague broke out in Cape Colony the British government made a radical decision to move a large group of native South Africans out of a supposed slum into areas on the outskirts of the city which many historians argue was a move by white south Africans to segregate African born south Africans to other parts of the city for racial reasons. In Hong Kong the British enforced many odd medical practices such as floating plague victims out on boats onto the water and cooling plague victims with ice which scared many Chinese residents of Hong Kong and lead to them migrating back to mainland China where the Plague was hitting even worse. Another notable case of social issues caused by the plague is the great first of Honolulu which caused the Chinatown in Honolulu to be destroyed and thousands of Chinese family's to be homeless. In America when the plague reached San Francisco there was a major social conflict in the factor of the medical board of the city implementing a strict quarantine of the entire Chinatown district after only discovering one case of the plague causing many to question whether this was because of a racial bias that the medical professionals believed Chinatown to be unsanitary and therefore full of the plague already.