BUBONIC PLAGUE.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST FLEAS. By Telegraph.—Frees Assn.—Copyright Sydney, Feb. 14. The health authorities are pushing the campaign against fleas. They have brought forth aumerous complaints about the prevalence of the pest in railway carriages, and Dame Melba, in a letter to the Press, has given prominence to the subject. She states that when she was travelling from Melbourne in a sleeper neither she nor her maid were able to obtain a wink of sleep owing to the attentions of fleas. The railway commissioners, after a special inquiry, replied that the sleeper w(is thoroughly overhauled, cleaned, and fumigated before being used, but they are now undertaking more effective methods for the and complete destruction of all vermin in railway carriages.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 7
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120BUBONIC PLAGUE. Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 7
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