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Concrete over site should be provided to prevent this. Much of the modern "hidden" plumbing is an en- couragement to rats.
The ducts give them a hiding place, a home, and a means of communication throughout the building.
The "built in" bath is ideal, giving warmth from the hot water pipes and safety from their enemy the cat and the dog.
That the "built in" bath has all the amenities for a rat residence is often dismissed by "Rubbish." There is no where for them to get in.
case.
Removal of these baths prove such is not always the
A list made from one of twelve removed from an hotel included:
12 pieces soap, (size varying from full cake to 2 cake), all pieces showing teeth marks, 5 socks, 3 silk stockings, 1 silk vest, 1 silk knickers, 1 garter, and in addition about 7 lbs. of indescribable rubbish.
With hotels there is generally food to be obtained. A breakfast is brought up, and there is an interval between the guest going out and the breakfast being cleared away, which may give a rat time to come from behind his bath and collect his meal.
The Ministry of Health (England) put forth "No food, no rats is a true dictum," adding "It should be recognized that the existence of rats is solely dependent on the food they are able to obtain, and that they will not remain or increase in places where food and shelter are not easily procured."
Food with the rat, as with others, is the greatest necessity, and it is stated all the food eaten by man is also food for the rat, and in addition, such articles as candles, soaps, oils, fats, sewage, dead bodies, whether humans or animals, etc.
E. W. BLACKMORE, LTD.
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