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Show PBl'l Rats, Plague Carriers of India. mM 1 Before plnguo makes Its appearance. EbM In a houso tho rat mortality generally BH gives warning and a case occurs Vl' among tho people In a house near f,. which rats havo been found. Tho peo- HIM, pie havo now come to know that thore pBBT Is Homo connection between the rat BBBf mortality and the occurrence of PBB' plaguo cases In a certain locullty. The pBBk: rats go about from ono place to an- PBBJ other and they carry Infection fiom BBBJ place to place and render the tuak of BBBJ controlling plague, when It Is once BBBJ spread, very difficult. It therefore IBB!! necessary that the public should co- pBBjT operate with the health department to IBB destroy us many rats as possible. The BBBJ rains havo now stopped, and, as it iti BBBJ tho breeding season for rats, tho pros- BBS: cut Is tho fittest, occasion for a cam- BBBt pnlgn against rats. Dombay Gazottc. |