SUFFOLK PLAQUE SCARE.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE RATS. By TelcgrapU—Press Association—Copyright. London, November 3. Leading medical experts have initiated a 'strong movement in Favour of the Government organising operations for tho universal destruction of rats, in order to 1 extirpate plague germs.
TTio recent'outbreak in Suffolk is attributed to manure ■ Bhipped from London, containing the sweepings of Argentine cattle fillips, and the remains of rats and other animals.
Plague rats have, been found ( on vessels iii the Thames. Stringent precautions are being taken.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 966, 5 November 1910, Page 5
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