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Show 4. f. UNCLE SAM SPENDS MILLION A DAY TO j I FEED NATION'S RATS j WASHINGTON. Aug 24 'Standard plans for rat-proofing business buildings, dwelling and wharves are being drawn up b the public health i service commission as part of its plan to stamp bubonic plague out of the eountr . The plans are to be furnished to stales and cities foi incorporation I in building codes. "While bubonic plague is under control in this coildtry, there will always be scattered infection until the rat can be exterminated." said Surgeon General Gumming, "According to authoritative estimates, there is one .rat for ever n person in the United States To maintHiu this huge number of rats cost the people of this country approximately one cent per person every day ! for rat food an intolerable and unnecessary burden for the people to ' I carry." If the surgeon general s figures are correct there are about 100,000,000 rat- ,n the United States If each rat eats a penny's worth of food each I day, the rat population of the United States Is costing the people $1,-uoo.ooo $1,-uoo.ooo a day |