Show PLAGUE INFECTION STILL I OBJECT OF ATTACK IN SAN FRANCISCO Washington Dec Dee 10 The next re report port oit of the th public health and marine service will contain the official statement by past Assistant Surgeon General Hobdy that bubonic plague Infection is still generally distributed In n San Francisco but the percentage percentages Is s very mush mun lower than was at first reported I Investigation along the water waterfront waterfront waterfront front he adds shows that there is isa Isa isa a considerable of rats present pre and a still more marked de decrease Tease crease In sick or dead rats seen Of the he dead rats rata found fl nd many were wro proved to o have died from the results of the rat mt crusade now being waged wag Iato observations indicate that the number i of rats rat found on board vessels ln In I the harbor of San Srn Francisco is being steadily reduced I ol Past Assistant Surgeon Rupert Blue in charge of the plague exter extermination extermination extermination campaign in San Francisco will report that up to Dec 7 1 the num nurn number number ber her of cases reached total deaths 67 death rate per cent During the week ending last Saturday premises were Inspected for tor plague houses were disinfected twenty houses were destroyed by fire or other means rats were found dead in the city 1911 rats were trapped and killed poisons were placed for rat extermination Of rats rate bac bao examined only ono was found to be Infected with the tho plague bacillus ba The statistics show that in India from April last to October there were cases of plague and deaths de |