BUBONIC PLAGUE IN TARANTO
BRITISH RAT-CATCHING EXPERTS TO INVESTIGATE (Rec. 10,50 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. - Mr Macaulay Gracie, who as director of infestation control in the Ministry of Food, is chief of all rat catchers in England, is flying immediately to Taranto to deal with an outbreak of bubonic plague, 23 cases of which have been reported in the past few weeks. Unrra has immediately released three tons of D.D.T. for dusting civilians, and sent an SOS to London for plague vaccine and expert advice. The plane carrying Mr Gracie will be loaded with the latest type of poison for the mass destruction of rats, to which the epidemic has been A scientific officer, who will . explain the latest methods by which 8,000,000 rats have been destroyed in England in the past 18 months, will accompany Mr Gracie.
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Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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