Abstract
Introduction - Epidemics & French colonial medicine - Background to the Senegalese bubonic plague epidemics, 1880-1914 - Part I 'Take [a job in Dakar] if you want to die'. The plague epidemic of 1914 - Outbreak, April-May 1914 - Plague's progress in Dakar, May-November 1914 - The medical response - Measuring the impact of the 1914 epidemic - Part II Kooxma Dooma Ka: 'Acute headaches', 1919-38 - 'The plague leaps out of the ground': plague ecology in Senegal - Visions of the plague: the rural impact - Plague in the city: epidemics in Dakar, Rufisque & Saint-Louis - Part III 'Merely a disease of natives': plague, war & politics, 1939-45 - The Dakar plague epidemic of 1944 - The plague's retreat after 1945 - Appendix: the statistical picture
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