CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10] — Page 204

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General cleansing has gone on throughout

the winter 1907

account of the increase of plague cases reported alive this year

the notification of which usually came in too late for the

disinfection of the houses to be completed on the same day,

the general cleansing had often to be given up to enable actual

plague houses to be disinfected in the early mornings. This

however only happened when the epidemic was well established and

probably does not to any great extent account for the rise of

this year's epidemic.

1908 and well on into the plague season. On

Broadly then the differences between this

year and previous years are (1) the absence of anti-flea

measures following the discovery of infected rats and (2) the

probable intense epizootic.

During the years 1904, 1905 and 1906, these

anti-flea measures used to be brought to hear on blocks of

houses where several rats found infected had come from with

the idea of preventing human cases. In 1908 this has been

impossible and even in 1906 it was much lessened after April

7th.

Making allowance for periodic fluctuations

in rat epizootic and flea prevalence it seems that the factors

which we might to some extent control and which we have not

been able to control this year are the catching of rats in

houses and the anti-flea measures directed against houses where

infected rats come from, not only in individual houses but in

blocks. Every living rat caught is one less prospective plague

rat and though we cannot exterminate rats yet we can hope to

reduce their numbers in houses during the plague season.

I attach a return which shows that in 1907

the living rats collected all came from houses during the 3

months April to June the plague season

If instead of giving up rat catching this

year we had redoubled our efforts in this direction and atteript- -ed to get over the opposition of the people by modifying the procedure

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