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...every known person and economically valuable creature aboard has been removed, hatches, ports and other openings are tightly closed. In every closed space hydrocyanic gas, instantly fatal to animal life, is released.** European sanitarians have been doing that. But their methods have not exterminated every rat aboard ship. In Manhattarn they learned the necessity of diligence in tracing rat droppings to rat nests between beams, in pipe coverings, under floors, over ceilings. Into every hole into which a rat may squeeze, deadly gas must be sprayed. After fumigation the ship must be aerated, dead rats searched out. Sometimes the search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Ratcatchers | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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