(Recommended by published notices Perk extensive distribution of hand-No rats. No plague.
A hence that is rat-proof is plagueproof, by trapping and poisoning, 3.—Make your house as rat-proof as possible.
4,—Provide no food for rats, Keep all food in places inaccessible to rats. Grain and sach like food for ponies, fowle, ete., abound be kept in covered galvanised iron receptacles. "See that your servants keep their rice bags where tats cannot get. Keep house refuse in properly covered galvanised iron recep-tades and see that they are covered, especially at night. Keep the kitchen and ite surroundioge very clean; let no refuse lie about.
5,—See that the gratings into the space below the ground floor keep oat ra's, and that the brickwork of the basement is impervious to rats, If rats gain access through windows or other openings on tke ground floor keep them out by screening with wire netting.
6.—See that all openings into covered drains are kept in good repair to prevent egress of sewer rats, Carefally inspect all corners of the house from top to bottom once weekly, moving furniture where necessary. Do the same in the arable, foul hoose and other outhouses. Ara' g" for the plastering up of rat-holes or any place that may afford ingress to rats or mice.
7.—All rate trapped or poisoned should be berat; other ra's found dead in or about the house should not be roached with the bands bat should be picked up with tango, put into Jeyes' fluid and water (1 in 20) and sent to the Health Officer for examination for Plague, 8.—Get vaccinated against Plague if expoted to infection.
9—If you have any difficulty in carrying out the above measures communicate with the Health Officer in The above are the special measures to operation within the Settlement Plague, In addition such general methods of prevention applica able to all dangerous infectious diseases, as are possible under local conditions, uch as notification, isolation and infection can be put into operation sain haman cases of Plague as they arise. Not only is the pal arrangement has been made with the whereby their foreign-trained doctors will exami and isolate Chinese
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