THE RAT MENACE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 3

THE RAT MENACE

TO TUB IDITOK. Sir, —We are passing through an anxious time with the influenza epidemic, and still find that there are quite a number of people who do not know how others live even in the larger cities. It is time for some energetic person to get up and start a town-planning system wiping out our slums and doing away with our hideous narrov lanes ("dignified by the name of "streets?'), which are numerous in the Empire and Queen cities. We see the Mayor and Health authorities trying to clean up the city, but, may I ask, have they tackled the "rat menace" 7 These rodents abound in our warehouses, stores, and ships to an alarming extent, and, as everyone knows, carry the germs of all diseases. While we are "cleaning" op the cities, will the Health authorities make a thorough and final clean-up once and send round vigorous inspectors? I hope our civic health authorities will attend to this very important matter, as prevention is better than cure, in order to save our people from another epidemic, which may be far more serious than the present catastrophe,,; ;; . •■ „■■. ■ • In conclusion, I--have no desire to set up a scare and alarm people, as a certain number were affected through fright of the "influenza."—l am, eta, DESTROY THE RATS.