The rat and its relation to the public health,
by various authors. Prepared by direction of the Surgeon-General.

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Corporate Author: United States. Public Health Service.
Language(s): English
Published: Washington, U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1910.
Subjects: Rats as carriers of disease.
Rats.
Note: Internal parasites of rats and mice in relation to diseases of man. C.W. Stiles and C.G. Crane.- Compendium of animal parasites reported for rats and mice, C.W. Stiles and A. Hassall.- Flea and its relation to plague, C. Fox.- Rodents in relation to transmission of bubonic plague, R. Blue.-Rodent extermination, W.C. Rucker.- Natural enemies of the rat, D.E. Lantz.-Rat-proofing as an anti-plague measure, R.H. Creel.- Inefficiency of bacterial viruses in the extermination of rats, M.J. Rosenau.- Plague eradication in cities by sectional extermination of rats and general rat-proofing, V.G. Heiser.- The rat in relation to shipping, W.C. Hobdy.- The rat as an economic factor, D.E. Lantz.- The rat in relation to international sanitation. J.W. Kerr.
At head of title: Treasury Department. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States.
Physical Description: 254 p. illus., diagr., plates (part col.) 25cm.
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