Creator	United States. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
LoC No.	10035345
Title	The rat and its relation to the public health
Original Publication	Washington: Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, 1910.
Contents	Introduction, by W. Wyman -- Natural history of the rat, by D.E. Lantz -- Plague infection in rats, by G.W. McCoy -- Rat leprosy, by W.R. Brinckerhoff -- Bacterial diseases of the rat other than plague, by D.H. Currie -- Organic diseases of the rat, by G.W. McCoy -- Ectoparasites of the rat, by N. Banks -- Internal parasites of rats and mice in relation to diseases of man, by C.W. Stiles and C.G. Crane -- Compendium of animal parasites reported for rats and mice, by C.W. Stiles and A. Hassall -- The flea and its relation to plague, by C. Fox -- Rodents in relation to transmission of bubonic plague, by R. Blue -- Rodent extermination, by W.C. Rucker -- Natural enemies of the rat, by D.E. Lantz -- Rat-proofing as an antiplague measure, by R.H. Creel -- Inefficiency of bacterial viruses in the extermination of rats, by M.J. Rosenau -- Plague eradication in cities by sectional extermination of rats and general rat-proofing, by V.G. Heiser -- The rat in relation to shipping, by W.C. Hobdy -- The rat as an economic factor, by D.E. Lantz -- The rat in relation to international sanitation, by J.W. Kerr.
Credits	Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level	Reading ease score: 61.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language	English
LoC Class	RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
Subject	Rats
Subject	Rats as carriers of disease
Category	Text
eBook-No.	76630
Release Date	Aug 4, 2025
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
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