Show In The seriousness of the bubonic plague in San Francisco Is to bo be realized inthe In Inthe the fact that up to the 1st of the tho month there had been iii definite cases with deaths 32 recoveries anti and 13 treatment and there are arc now 50 suspected cases under tinder observation The local health office reports that since the middle of September rats have havo been taken to the bacteriological logical laboratory for or examination Of the tho rats lost last examined only Cl wore were found to bo 10 Infected with the the- plague and this Is looked upon as a i most encouraging record It appears that the tho average number of eases cases re reported re- re ported weekly has decreased over 75 per cent since the tho middle of her bor as the result of at tho campaign of sanitation conducted by the United marine hospital corps under the tho com com- of Dr Di Rupert Elite assisted by Dr W. W C. C Rucker Bucker In this connection the city council of Portland Ore re- re p. an rat anti ordinance which requires the tho iso uso of wire screens screens screens' or It netting In iii all basements warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses grain elevators docks nail and packing houses for the tho protection of alt all foodstuffs from rats It Is the purpose pur pose of the ordinance to starve these animals by shutting off their food sup sup- plIes piles as much as possible rind and at the tho same time prevent foodstuffs from being belag be be- lag ing Infected with bubonic germs This is the tho same ordinance that was enacted by the councils of San Pan Francisco and Seattle on the tho of tho federal authorities as as' the tho most effective means of guarding against a possible Invasion of the tho plague |