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. 1921 Jul;11(7):606–613. doi: 10.2105/ajph.11.7.606

What Health Officers Can Do to Promote Rat Extermination

Edward A Goldman
PMCID: PMC1353858  PMID: 18010513

Abstract

Rats are a civic reproach and a sanitary menace of the first magnitude, not merely an unavoidable economic burden. Health officers everywhere must be active because civilization demands the coöperation of all forces in the removal of the rat menace to health and well-being. This paper outlines well-digested plans for efficient warfare on the rat.

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