The rat and its relation to the public health
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| 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 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-76630-0 |
| Release Date | Aug 4, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 534 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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