BEAUTIFUL NAPLES.
PLAGUE EPIDEMIC BREAKS OUT.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Naples, Hept. 26. Twelve dock laborers hero have been seized with the plague.
Tho steamship Hyson brings news that not loss than 2,000,000 rats have been killed in Oriental cities as a means of preventing tho spread of bubonic plague. Premiums have been offered to persons who bring in rat tails. At Tokio rat-catchers have received so much a head and large sums have been paid out, Similar operations have been conducted at Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Amoy, and Foochow. At Tokio several buildings of the Imperial Japanese University were torn down and burned because some rats in them were found to he infected with plague baccili. Although the plague has not yet invaded Tokio, the authorities have determined not to relax their precautions. With this object they are beginning a new crusade against rats, this time by a system of rewards instead of paying so much a rat. Prizes will bo allotted after the total number of rats captured reaches 200,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 223, 27 September 1901, Page 2
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