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Show LARGE NUMBER.OF RODENTS. KILLED New Orleans, July 9 Since federal authorities took charge of the bubonic plague situation here and began a year ago a campaign against rates, 369,151 rodents have been trapped and killed, according to a report made public today by Dr R. H Creel of the United States public health service. Only 244 rodents were plague infected, infect-ed, it was said. Of the total number trapped, 202,570 were Norway or "wharf" rats. Infected rodents of this species predominated, 216 having been found to be diseased. The last human case of plague was icported on October 4, 1914. |