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Show RAT IS REAL MENAGE ! TO HEALTH GF HRTJBII Government Official Urges Co eral Campaign of Extermination Extermina-tion as Economic Necessity. "The necessity of n cump.ilsn of ttn-vnrjlng ttn-vnrjlng elllelciii') iikhIiiki the fMinin-in p brown nil is ilivlon." a.vc V. II. n.ll f the fnltcil Slates hloloslcal survey. sur-vey. I "No other iiiiliiiiil hr Insect N so ilan- ; gcroti und ierI.Htent mi enemy, and tin oilier enemy Kiin-feiN In InnViIng Ibe ilaiuage that the rat iiiinuiill) lin- pie-es upuii lunmuilly. "I'.ul the rnileut'M enmity 1 far fmm "'-: -ailxlled by einimnile Injury A fr.iiieiii,.r f u,0 ,,1,,,.,.., ,'ml" ,,,,. vile mill loathsome, the rut It a tnoM efllrlenl germ currier. The germs of the dteinled 'hliicl, deiilb" hae Killed mere limnaii beings thiiu nil the nr of the world's history, mid these genus me Introduced Into the human Wem the blic of the rnf flea. In liulla. no longer ago limn 1NX1. the liulnmlr pl igile killed iUKHUXH) persons. In Km ope. iluilng Hie 1 lib century. It l hell .'ei in huvp lirouglit death to '.'". (W.OeO liiiiiinn beings. Other illseuses. tilrioM as drelulfiil, are trm-ed to the cmmiiiin rut. "Ti-npiiig nhoulil be done oonllnn illy il-ly mil x.Wematlculb at all i it-lnrisid it-lnrisid I'l.nes. ltnt pulMinr Klxmltl l. eiii.luM.i. rdinrtiiinliy or elle urann Imtliii Is .r the gretiteHt linioriiiiu-e It do. no j:ii,m1 to drive the nits from one eilliir into the next If tl arc allowed al-lowed to Iik-i d unmolested In tluir m u inuitirs if one pair of wits l lift they em i reproiluce tlio original niiin-In niiin-In r In a llnle while, as rats breed live or s . i ) t n jenr with nn average of 10 to i he litter. "In connection with th,. extoi-mlnu tlon i'aniialgiis. tireM'iitlve measures MiihiIiI he eniplojed. Klrt iiiuong these Is ilie prolectlon of all food Mip I piles, the remoMil anil deslrurllou of ' refuse Is the next iei In preinllin. I UH abandoned ilmnps mid piles i,( waste ! tmilerlal furnish eM-ellent shelter mid j food for the rats that have been d. ivun from the houses ami cellars." ' |