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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1923, Page 1

TUW.N'S KSCAI’K. I.IiXDOX. Septembei 22. IV. Moro. medical officer of health tor Liverpool. in his report slates ifi.u Liverpool inis find a nnnow escape fnm: being .-wept, by plague, brought intr the port by rots on a ship from India. While a cargo was being discharged, hi' -a\s. two of the city rat-catching staff discovered dead plague-infected rats in a consignment of mattress filire. The sanitary authorities took immediate action. The native c-row w■ "c Isolated, tin- cargo cleared, and tl;: ship fumigated. b'ixty-tmir rats, and two mice we found dead or alive, half of them hoinix infected with plague. The destination of the cargo was traced, ami the medical authorities notified of the dancer. The mattress fibre in which the infected rats had made their ne.-ts was disinfected hv steam. The danger of infection hy mail means i- shown hy the fact that last v ear 70.000 rats were destroyed in Liverpool. .70,000 of them in -hips o’, in the docks.

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