Show y alp AGUE ON COAST VICTIM SUPPOSED TO HAVE CON DISEASE HANDLING GROUND SQUIRRELS vigorous effort will be made dy by the health officials to exterminate these infection carrying rodents sacramento cal 1 the disi discovery covery a few days ago of an authenticated authenticate caso case of bubonic plague in bunola alameda county has baa inspired the tb estalo board of health to renewed activity tu lu the camp campaign Ign against the ground squirrel in that and adjacent counties at a Ine meeting eting ol of the board it was decided to prosecute the work with moro more vl vigor or than heretofore in on an effort to exterminate these infection carrying rodents I 1 the youth who chois is ill with tho tha plague in the alameda hospital la Is supposed to have contracted the disease tb through rough eating or handling infected squirrels wiled killed by him on a hunting trip Tho thousands of squirrels have been killed or caught by hunters in the employ of the marine hospital service and bacteriological examination has ag demonstrated the existence of plague among them but not to an alarming claiming extent tho me effort of these thesa officials Is now being directed largely to the discovery of an all eff efficient lelent method of squirrel extermination and some sam 0 interesting experiments are being made to tills end |