| Show PLAGUE GUI IS REAL L MENACE C GET GT RID F OP OF OI RATS TS F R TS WARNING W FOLLOWS MAIN TRAVELED ROADS t r Spread of f Disease Occurs More More Frequently by Water Says Government Expert Washington July 26 28 Bubonic plague follows the tho main traveled roads spreading out along the loss beaten paths patha to t th the remote ends of the tho earth says say Dr W W. W C C. C Ruck r assistant sur- sur neOn leon general general- public pUblio health health service Fortunately Lt Its spread from one country country coun coun- try to another occurs more frequently by water ater than by land Our entire Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- cUle coast l IB is threatened by plagues from the orient The Pacific toast Is also menaced by the existence of ot the disease In Ecuador and Peru on tho the western coast of South America Amedea a lIttle littie lit lIt- tle tie over miles away from San Francisco The entire gulf coast is 18 menaced by plague In Havana miles from Galveston miles from New Orleans Orlean ml miles cs from Tampa and 92 miles from Key West est The disease was found among rats In Now Orleans on March 9 The Tho Atlantic coast Is la threatened with plague not only from train the eastern coast of South America but from tram European Euro Euro- penn African and Asiatic porte port aa ne well Less than miles from New York plague Is found In Brazil at nt Pernambuco buco Bahia and Rio do de Janeiro In the Mediterranean littoral plague Is found in Tripoli Greece Egypt and at nt Port Said one of the great gateways of ot th the world Practically all allot of the tho great t ports porta of British India with the tho exception exception tion of ot Calcutta are Infected with plague Rangoon Madras Columbo Bombay and Karachi report the disease die dis ease and from tho the latter point Gulf Gult Singapore Mauritius bar Queenstown in South Mr Africa ca and Dakar In Senegal all have plague Directly or Indirectly our country Is In commercial communication with all th the infected places which have havo been mentioned and It must bo be admitted that In view of x f tho the fact that plague Is la laa a Go disease of ot rodents which travel trave around the world in ships the United States must consider itself as aa seriously men menaced ced by bub plague Investigation has bus revealed rc that I plague exists In ii three American ports 1 f t- t J I T u uD I D DR TK R. R W w. C. C RUCKER who sounds I I note of warning Teaming concerning menace of bubonic plague t 4 j V 4 V 1 ee according to Dr Rucker and It Is la not at all unlikely that thorough search would demonstrate Its Ita presence In the other American seaports having largo large foreign commerce Regarding steps that should be taken to combat the plague Dr Br Rucker says The Tho first line lino of ot defense is marl mari time quarantine The Tho second Is at the wharves whar and consists In the prevention of ot the embarkation or disembarkation of ot rodents The third may moy consist in the Immunization of human beings but this Is at best beat a weak reed upon which to lean The Tho fourth line lino of ot defense con consists In rat proofing tho the environments In which man works nn and lives liven All AU of ot the theother other lines JInes of ot defense or an any combInation combination tion of ot them mo may be he u used ed but the tho single single sin sin- gle one upon which absolute reliance rollance can be placed and from which lasting protection may moy be obtained IB is b by the insulation of man mon from the animal which serves as ns the dl disseminating host of bubonic An Any city which will render runder Its Itself lf completely rat-proof rat need have havo no fear whatsoever of pla plague ul |
