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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 39.

Rats and the Plague in India

Rats are themselves deemed a plague wherever they exist to any considerable extent, but in India they are accused of being a cause of the malady known as "the plague." Their connection with this dread disease is now said to have been proved by an extraordinary success in decreasing the scourge through a war of extermination against rats, carried on in sixty towns in the Punjab. The operation is still incomplete, but the experiment is regarded as of immense importance in view of the fact that a million people have already died from the plague in the Punjab alone.