Show I Rats Wreak Heavy Damage amage f if H C Cot Cost t TJ Utah h. h 90 O O y Year a fl Once Unknown in State C OATS ATS once unknown in the state now cost Utah RATS L yearly yearl and wreak untold damage to the residents of the thc state according to Dr T. T B. B Beatty of the state board of health The rats were first introduced into the state in small cargoes of grain shipped from California At that time attention was called to the danger but the matter was passed until now the rodents have become pests and spreaders of disease are arc urged to make war on rats if for no other reason than that the they arc are the thc most costly pest and are arc wonderfully productive statistics statistics sta eta showing that In three years one pair of ot rats will produce more than rats Cost COt Is Heavy Experts who have studied the thc pests declare that every year rats rate I in the United States alone alone- do more than damage and that it requires the services of or I men to repair that damage Conservative Con Con- o estimates show that a rat L will cat five cents worth orth of or food tood a a L day This figure uro is borne out b by experts and anel Is shown by Dr Victor Victot C. C Americas America's foremost authority on the bubonic plague disease e. e which is spread by rats who presents this calculation Take an area around Now York that embraces Jerst Jersey City Newark and Paterson and you get het a a. lation of oC Allowing Allowing- that thai thero there is In that area arc arcone one rat for tor every two persons you have rats It costs then 18 a a. year car carto to support one But well we'll bo be conservatIve conservative conservative con con- and make It 10 It L costs therefore a a. year ear to feed the rats In 11 and around I New York City The destruction to tc I docks by rats is enormous so that thai It is a paying Investment to rat rat- proof the city I Utah Has Now make the tho application to tc I Utah said faid Dr Beatty Allow r one to each three persons and I we have o rats In n the state which at a a. cost of or 18 per year ear I makes tho the cost of or the rodents In Ir Inthe Inthe the state per year an ar 1 I enormous load to carry regardless of their spreading of or disease The Th I pests ought to be eradicated In Ir 1 tho the state For tho the reason that i there them has been so much said re regarding re- re garding the possibility of or an out outbreak out break of or the bubonic plague in th the thc I t coast st cities and which could b beto bo be spread to Interior clUes cities atu and 11 I I towns I would like to call attention attention attention atten atten- tion to a lecture delivered at tho Postgraduate hospital and medical medi cal school in New York by bv Dr Heisler Has Just Returned Dr Heisler who has studied I and fought plague all over th tho world for tor more than twenty years has Just returned from Crom an expedition expedition tion to South and Central America Amer Amer- ica lea where he has been ing the disease under the tho auspices auspice S of oC the Rockefeller foundation I. I I Since 1915 ho has hM been director directo r I for tor the East Fast of oC the tho international health board of tho the Roel Rockefeller r foundation ln ha having resigned a as S the United States Stales governments government's S director of or health In the thc Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines a a. post he ho had held for tor ten tel a years During his Philippine service ser ser- vice ho gained a worldwide reputation reputation reputation tation as an authority on on plague and has added to it since lie He re ro re- re II to the fact that plague plaue I is S almost exclusively a rat borne disease disease dis ease and that it has appeared L this year at Pensacola Fla Fin New Orleans and Galveston and Beau Beau- ClU- ClU monte mont Tex To prevent Its introduction In New York he said the the tho first place to head it of off is at Quarantine by bYI 1 tho the thorough fumigation of or ships which of ot course is done Sulphur Sulphur Sul Sal Is used and the gas from of or potassium The tatter tat lat ter tel Is best and it Is wonderful how successful rul It can be used under favorable circumstances to kill off orr the tho rats It must be used with great care however because It I Is Cr very deadly Plague Is Serious There Is considerable doubt about the value of or prophylactic inoculation against plague but Itcan it itcan I can do no harm hann to try It I Right now every day rats rata should be bo tested for tor here herf in tho the city You might find It in rats six months before you would get a human with it It I have never known offering a a. bounty for dead I rats to bring nn any results Un- Un Un-j Un I persons might begin breeding rats to get the bounties When one of or your rat gangs gangs' gets a rat that the tests show to bo be a plague rat then concentrate on tho the section In which It was waa found Laws Arc Are Wrong Tho The building laws ws should be amended to provide for a new now method of or construction so BO as to render all new buildings This should apply to docks also so 50 that tho the whole city would gradually grad Grad- tend to become I In 1899 the tho United States State I I government received word of ot the theof 1 outbreak of plague In the East Jt and Dr Heisler was sent to Egypt to to study It ft and thorn thero became a a member of oC the first plague com com- mission A Spaniard advanced I the theory that It was carried b by P fleas but ho was laughed at Dr hoister Heisler said The tracing Its history he hc i j Continued on page paco 4 1 Ii 1 RATS WREAK r i i I C Continued n d from page 1 11 said The Bible mentions a dis- dis ease case which killed rats and in inI l I I which glandular swelling wa waI was wasi j i present In tho the second and fourth I I centuries It killed d one quarter one of ot I 3 I the thc population of ot Europe and In It wiped out half of ot London f H Plague Plaue 1 H In 1894 became a at I great exporter of pl plague e because i t I no medical precautions were tak- tak I t n at tho the docks It spread to Calcutta Calcutta Cal- Cal I and antI Bombay in 1896 1306 The i germ was nas discovered in 1898 b by by byr t r Y r l a Frenchman and Kita Kita- f ll caio EaLo a Japanese It appeared in inI I 1599 in fn Oporto Spain Manna Manila I I South America Hawaii and San I i Francisco I I Its havoc Is unbelievable It f 5 killed 10 persons in India f I In ten years The Tho rate at which I it is spread by infected field rats rata is amazing In tho the tropics the tho thoi I i houses are built of ot bamboo and I i tho the rats rata gnaw Into the the- supports I I to tp make mako their nests in tho the holi hol- hol I i lows Persons who are arc much In I contact with rats rata rehi h less susI sus- sus I to th the the- disease and that thatis is ii Orb ono reason why Vh we never ne have havo t a. a great groat epidemic here because weI we wo aro iro used to rats I Fleas Dangerous Tho The British plague commission commis I sion slon says say the the- transmission of or takes place through tho the t medium of or fleas icat but flez arc are I very cry delicate Insects who cannot I exist long so 80 I doubt it but give S-ivo i I I tho the flea ilea something on which to toI I l favorably say favorably say a a. rat then rat then I 1 j the dispose MC is conveyed It Is I r seldom eldom if it e ever r. r conveyed by man mant manI t I alone i j I I Wherever you ou find a pl plague e eI I victim you ou find a a. dead rat in tho the thoI I I coiling ceiling in hollow I I a wall or under th the floor I I In Manila ono one morning fit fit- Jt- Jt i men were stricken n in In fifteen I widely separated places They rhey 1 I i were all aU silversmiths and worked I 1 1 in iii the same shop We Ve found many 1 l' l dead dud rats ruts under tho the floor In i j Manila Ionna also an editor died of ot it ILi 7 I Vo 0 found a dead rat in his desk drawer drawe i It if you ask uk me what is the tho treatment of the iho disease I 1 reply There Isn't neither any neither drug Ul nor serum scrum are arc effective Uve Good od nursIng nursing nursing nurs nurs- ing will sometimes pull pun a a. case caso through As to the only thing is to k keep cp ep on killing rats California has spent millions and still tho the plague per persists Complete Completo eradication has very rarely been accomplished When It comes to control It can bo held down to very insignificant numbers |