Ground Squirrels, Rats, and Plague

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 25, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 33.

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Ground Squirrels, Rats, and Plague

It is now stated that the ground-squirrels are a menace; that they may take the germs of bubonic plague from rats, and make it endemic in California. The only real remedy there seems to be is persistent war on rats till all are destroyed. American Medicine declares that the only way to do it is to starve them to death by cleanliness.