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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1912
Page
31
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service reports an exhaustive study on rodent control as plague spreads to the eastern United States. The disease has reached Port Rico with over forty two cases and a score of deaths, and Havana, Cuba, has a tally of a dozen cases.
Plague fears prompt Atlantic and Gulf cities to intensify rat excision and fumigation of ships from San Juan and Havana. Authorities, led by Assistant Surgeon S. B. Grubbs and R. H. Creel, deploy urgent quarantine measures to prevent flea transmission from rats to humans and curb the disease before it reaches US shores.
Little Hallie Twombly, whose father recently earned an aviator license, rode with George W. Beatty in a Wright biplane. The ten year old endured bold aerial maneuvers to 500 feet, squealing with delight as the craft tilted and swung. After fifteen minutes Beatty landed and Hallie calmly reported the ride to her father.
Assistants Sur Joseph Ridlon and T L Williams report plague outbreaks across San Juan San Turce Carolina Luiza Arroyo and Dorado with heaviest activity in San Juan areas Puerta de Tierra and San Turce. Arguing for extermination of rats and disruption of food supplies, use metal containers, phosphorus poison, and careful trapping to study fleas and disease transmission.
The text describes how captured rats are tagged and examined for disease in laboratories. Steps include antiseptic treatment, skinning, inspecting glands, bacteriological cultures, and immediate deratization if plague is found. Efforts in Porto Rico and Puerta de Tierra include destroying unsanitary buildings, rat proofing with concrete and sheet iron, and elevating structures to deter rats, with dogs and cats as natural enemies.
Paris dispatch recounts M. Guinot, once an ex priest anti clerical editor in Auxerre, who renounced vows, married, and attacked religion before suffering heart attacks. He returns to Catholic fold after reconciliation efforts by Abbe Decamp. His wife questions her future as the bishop weighs the case.
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