Hongkong, I came across yamper of dead rats left on thestreats and was told on inquiry that this bad been observed since the outbreak of the plague bacteria in the plague victim, the dead rats were subjected to microscopic examination and gave proof to the presence of the same bacteria io them. I became carious to see what relations there might be between the plague and the rats and my curiosity was abetted when medical experts from Germany and elsewhere visiting India for the technical study of the disease ascribed to rats an important part played by them in ite spread,
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