Show I i RATS INFEST SOUT SOUTHERN PORTION OF CITY ARE DESTROYING VEGETABLES Health Authorities Give Out Ad Advice Advice Advice Ad- Ad vice for Use se in Campaign Against Rodents 4 t It f f t t t t t 44 4 4 f To 10 get rid of oC the rat poison polson and 4 f traps are good but the main work i I 4 must be done lone where the time animals 4 breed Old barns barn refuse heaps heap f and other places must f- f be cleaned Cellars also must be 4 cleaned cl That Is the W way to deal 4 with the rat problem bY Dr r. r S. S GPaul G G. f ff f Paul city health officer f fH 4 H MM 1 r M H t 9 t 4 t t H t t 4 HM t I Coincident with the work being done b by city health Inspectors during the present cleanup week wary vary watch is being kept for Cor the tile rat Th There re is a r. r reason For the tIle past two or lr three years e rs the rats have multi multi- plied Two years ago their presence was noticeable and n. n mild campaign was waged against them But tho time rodents held heid their o own n Now th the they have spread over the southeast and sou southwest th portions of the city till the they constitute a 3 serious menace to the city's goods The rhe Invasion has not yet reached d the business district where the big buildings and big markets are but the rats are approaching approaching- month by month Granaries are already attacked 1 Even en eni fields with growing vegetables have been overrun o Are Arc Blamed The railroads are named as those originally to blame Once Salt Lake was It is asserted Transportation Transportation tation facilities increased d. d The Tho roads brought produce from the east and the tho coast Some rats got goot in As a re result re- re sult suit the blocks in the vicinity of or the railroad yards were first attacked Old barns and poorly constructed buildings are named as the tho breeding place oi ot tho tim rodents These according to Dr Paul must be cleaned before a solution of the rat problem is in sight At present the tue animals ar are all over tho the city except in the business district and up Ui on the tile bench Turn Pun non I rat r n n st started work Theo The work V was il 8 haphazard ird tho the jokes man many In tho the summer the city offered a bounty o of 5 cents a a. ahead ahead head for rats In Iii th the next nine months only 50 fO was paid out and amid then the matter was forgotten In the past winter man many complaints have haye been made mado the city commission An appropriation was talked about but fell through As th there re Is little mane money with which to conduct a city campaign tho matter rests on the tho Individual in individual In- In citizens And unless the citizens citi citi- zens get to work on this problem a a. general rat Invasion of oC Salt Lake Lalee Is I expected by the health authorities tics San l Campaign u. u That Tha t rat Is foxy OXy and hard bard to catch In San Francisco ho lie threatened to Infect the city with bubonic plague some time ago The rats came from ships inbound from fromn the lie Orient In spite of a flood of ridicule and deprecation deprecation deprecation depre depre- cation a campaign was started The government sent Its experts and finally finally finally fin fin- ally tho the danger r was past vast The Salt SaIl Lake rat snows shows no bubonic plague He lie Is still too far from the plague center although some foreign rodent ma may come conic som some da day to Join the colon colony and gallop around town wi with th his plague The Salt Sal t Lake rodent has no infectious disease yet et reported Mr lr Rat however or Is worse than anything any any- thing else ehe In distributing filth His nest wh hero ro he lie ha has hag his being Is a amass amass amass mass of dirt Germs of or all sorts of diseases ma may lurk in the time nest thou though h the rat ma may throw the time germs off ort Disease to humans Is not expected yet ct Keep a cat or a terrier K Keep CP a trap well vell baited Keep poison polson If essary Keep Keel chicken fences in good repair Above 10 all aU keep watching for forth forth forthe th the nests and eliminate them Thus warn city health authorities working on some ome sort of ot campaign for the I elimination of the tho pest |