PLAGUE OF RATS
WHAT IT COSTS ENGLAND
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, February 7.
Speaking at a conference on the rat plague, held at the Guildhall, Sir James Crichton-Browne said that rats cost a farthing daily for maintenance and damage done on an estimated basis of a rat for every acre. Hence the damage done in England and Wales amounted to fifteen millions sterling a year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15063, 9 February 1911, Page 7
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