Hi Chi-Huei,
Other factors leading to the tension between Chinatown inhabitants and other citizens were the opinions of medical professionals (in which they point to Chinatown as the source of all diseases), difference in living spaces/activities from norms set by middle-class families, and their threat job security of other workers. Building a hospital where "no respectable society" existed would place the responsibility of caring for the "rats" onto the city. Public officials would rather spend money to improve already well-to-do areas so as to get reelected or reappointed, knowing that the majority of public opinion was against helping these "rats" since they were unassimilable and strange. Also, destroying homes to make a hospital or improve
Other factors leading to the tension between Chinatown inhabitants and other citizens were the opinions of medical professionals (in which they point to Chinatown as the source of all diseases), difference in living spaces/activities from norms set by middle-class families, and their threat job security of other workers. Building a hospital where "no respectable society" existed would place the responsibility of caring for the "rats" onto the city. Public officials would rather spend money to improve already well-to-do areas so as to get reelected or reappointed, knowing that the majority of public opinion was against helping these "rats" since they were unassimilable and strange. Also, destroying homes to make a hospital or improve