Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border

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Rats and Plague

Sir,?As a late plague worker in India I must protest strongly against the assumption in your paper, that the sanitary authorities in India have taken the view that the rat is one of the main, if not the main disseminators of plague, from the information and experience gained in Australia. The paragraph to which exception must be taken by all workers in India is the following, which appears, und...

Plague and Rats

truction combined with measures such as the improvement of dwelling houses and the better storage of grain to lessen the rat population? Admittedly the I M. S is merely advisory in such matters, but for what it is worth I venture to express the following opinions, viz. (i) That in years to come it will be recognised that the one and only method of dealing successfully with Bubonic Plague is rig...

Rats and Plague at Giridih

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." \ / Sir,?I read the article by Assistant-Surgeon S. L. Sirkiw f on plague and rat-killing at Giridih in your December number and particularly the conclusions he draws with considerable surprise. They are misleading and should not I think be allowed to pass unchallenged. He quotes no figures, and makes a general statement to the effect that the inci...

Destruction of Rats and Prevention of Plague

The history of the plague epidemic at Giridih may be stated very briefly to be as follows:?The town of Pachamba, situated about 3 miles from Giridih, became infected at the end of July, 1904, by an infected man from Calcutta. A big and influential modi family became infected, and this family broke up and scattered to several places in the town of Giridih, and one went to Chaitadih within the E....