ABSTRACT
The SARS epidemic was soon to spread well beyond East Asia into South-East Asia: there were ‘Great fears of Sickenesse … God preserve us all’ (Pepys, ([1660-1669]1993: 486).
This chapter begins with a brief background account of the imported cases of SARS to the city-state of Singapore and then goes on to analyse the impact on the Singapore economy, its labour market and one particularly vulnerable part of its now pre-eminent service sector (Khatri, 2004: 221-2), namely hotels (and hospitality). We will ( nd a very distinctive approach to disease-control exempli( ed in this case.
