Show BOARD OF HEALTH STARTS CAMPAIGN TO RID SALT LAKE OF RODENT PESTS Bubonic lc plague has made Its Its' ap appearance ap In several American ports and in consequence ce Dr Willard Willard pf Cf the city b bard board ard of f health issued a a call cali call today for a rat i exterminating t g campaign am aign in Salt Lake It may not be generally known but Salt Lake Is badly infected with th these se pests said Dr Christ Christ- There are a gre great t many particularly on the west side of town A war of of extermination should be inaugurated against as rats mice and ground squirrels While Utah does not have the flea which acts as an intermediary between the the infected rat and the human being still if the disease should appear in San Francisco it would not be long before Salt Lake might be in grave danger The bu bubonic bubonic bubonic bu- bu bonic plague is an an appalling disease disease dis dis- ease and measures all of ot protection should be taken According to Information re received received received re- re at the city board of health foci of the infection are known to exist at New Orleans Pensacola and Galveston and in Tamp Tampico co and Vera Cruz Mexico In Vera Cruz the disease appears to have as assumed assumed assumed as- as the proportions of an epi epi- epi demic I Surgeon General Hugh S. S Cummings Cummings Cum- Cum has urged communities s throughout the country rate rat extermination and arid rat i I proofing campaigns According to i conservative estimates made by tl the te United States public health service service I ice on the basis of numerous surveys surveys sur sur- ve veys there is at least o one e rat for tor I every person in the United States According to the Information furnished furnished fur fur- 1 by the service it costs the United States a year to support its rat population because of its depredations This does not mice In the seaport cities work vork of extermination extermination is supplemented supple supple- I by bacteriological laboratory labora labora- tory toxy examinations The United States health service has stated that rats from Mediterranean ports 1 brought the disease to American ports recently |