Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-24
RAT-K|LL|NC CAMPAIGN
. PROMISES GOOD RESULTS
Housewives Start War Day Ahead
of Time and Many Rodents
Are Slaughtered.
DEPARTMENT Is ORGANIZED
War on Disease Carriers Will BE
Pushed With Nigor Under Leader
ship OF Health Bureau Inspectors
and Officers.

First news from the field OF con-
i!ict III the war OF the Department. of
Public Welfare against the rodent
hordes OF Richmond came into gem
eral field headquarters. the office OF
city Health officer &. &. hudson. yes
tcrday morning hours before the or
given TO the organized force of health
and sanitary Inspectors. housewives
in ali parts OF the city had anticipated
the opening guns of the campaign
and spread rat poison Sunday night
the alarm having been spread by
Mayor Ainslie's proclamation, pub
liShcd Sunday.
1t was u bad night for rats. From
the offices of the Street-Cleaning De-
pnrtmcnt the news came TO Field
Marshal Hudson that the slaughter
experience had the men OF the sani-
tary corps carried away in their carts
so many dead rodents as they did
Yesterday morning. Or. Hudson WAS
who later began the organized fight
when courier from Henry Cohn's
White wings" brought the tidings.
Early on the job.
The doctor Erinned broadly.
joins Re wonns sG early Tis ." ws ,hi*
Then he resumed his talk TO the in
best method OF spreading the pack
ages of barium carbonate. with which
the department armed them. and as
signed each inspector to his territory.
When the shock troops had sailed
forth. DIR. Hudson discussed the ini-
tial movement for the determination
OF rats
About forty persons have called
for the free POISON today" he said.
I'VE have 5000 four-ounce packages
on hand and 1000 more on the way.
Any citizen may obtain this rat bait
issued bulletin today. which was
mailed TO many business places and
points where rats swarm. We are
inviting everybody to use the rat bait.
but We have no facilities for dis
tributing it and all who want it must
come or send to the Office of the city
Health officer. fourth floor City Hail,
am glad to see that the housewives
OF cNterminating the rat and thus
reduce the danger of the entry OF
bubonic plague into Richmond.
.. DeSin I'm Cary Street.
partment will be in the wholesale
and produce commission district.
Cary Street. The sanitary officers
VIII spread the bait and explain to
the most effective method of using
the poison. Later, II is the purpose
or Director Levy to organize neigh
borhoods for an onslaught Different
different times, the rat bait being
spread in every house in tho pre-
scribed area simultaneously. We cx-
pect big results from tAc start.
THE rat is one of the most eau
tious of all animals. Hence. we an
tcipate decrease in the volume of
slaughter after a few DAYS The ro-
dents may later on avoid barium car
donate altogether. Then we will have
10 resort TO traps and other means
of determination. The best tran is
the cheapest. II is the trap com
monty known as the guillotine trap.
used By the government in the war
OF determination now in progress
throughout The United States But
tens OF thousands OF the .varmints'
VIII fall In the next few days and. IL
every citizen Will do his and her
part We can practically Danish the
food destroying. diseasc-carrvinp nrst
from Richmond. on with the slaugh-
teri"