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Report upon the Post-Mortem Examination of Rats at Ipswich1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. H. Macalister  and
R. St John Brooks
G. H. Macalister
Affiliation:
Assistant Bacteriologist at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
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On June 30th, 1911, we proceeded to Ipswich, with instructions from the Local Government Board to assist in an enquiry, the purpose of which was to determine the extent of the plague epizootic amongst rats in the surrounding districts. The share of this work allotted to us consisted in examination, at the Municipal Laboratory, of the animals received, and in selection, for further investigation by the Board's pathologists in London, of material which appeared suggestive of plague. For this purpose, rats presenting features in any degree consistent with the presence of plague were regarded by us as suspicious.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , November 1914 , pp. 316 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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1 This number includes 134 rats caught on board ships in the port of Ipswich, and 31 caught in and around the docks.