Show ON VICTIM SUPPOSED TO HAVE CON DISEASE HANDLING GROUND SQUIRRELS vigorous effort will bo go made by the health official to exterminate thee these infection carrying rodent rodents sacramento cal the discovery A f few ew days ago of an authenticated case of bubonic plague in bunola aumeda alameda county hae has inspired the state board renewed activity in the of health to campaign against the ground squirrel in that and adjacent counties at a meeting ot of the bourd it was decided to prosecute the work with more vigor than heretofore in an effort to exterminate these infection carrying rodents joseph mendoza the youth who I 1 Is ill with the plague in he alameda hoe hog pital Is supposed to have con contracted the disease through eating or hani handling ling infected squirrels killed by him on a it bunting hunting trip thousands of squirrels have been killed hilled or caught by hunters in the em ploy of the marine hospital service and bacteriological examination has demonstrated the existence of plague among them but not to an alarming extent the effort of these officials la is now being directed largely to the dis covery of an efficient method of equla rel extermination and some interest ing experiments are being made to this end |