A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942In A History of Plague in Java, 19111942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the "rat flea man" theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats,