VIEW OF HOUSE AT 447 CALLE CONSERVADOR, TONDO, WHERE INFECTED RATS WERE FOUND (MANILA PLAGUE CAMPAIGN)
Specimen order issued by the Medical Inspector in charge of Plague Suppression.
Station "C," Tondo, May 21, 1913.
Redistribution of rat catchers and laborers engaged in antiplague work. Effective May 2, 1913.
Sanitary Inspector Kennard and 20 rat catchers will move into Tondo District and trap and poison rats in the district bounded on the west by Manila Bay and on the east by Estero Reina. The work will be begun at the extreme north water boundary of this district and will proceed toward the south.
Sanitary Inspector Brantigan with a similar number of rat catchers (20) will work within the same east and west boundaries and will begin trapping and poisoning at Calle Moriones, proceeding north. The poisoning and trapping is to be done in the most thorough manner possible, as this is a dangerously infected district and rat-plague must be controlled and terminated here.
The laborers, 60 men, divided into 4 parties of 15 men each under Assistant Sanitary Inspectors Jesús, De la Rosa, Laxamana and Parás, will continue the cleaning operations now under way on both sides of C. Juan Luna south of C. Moriones (plague localities in the same neighborhood), and thoroughly disinfect.
One party of 15 men will work in the vicinity of C. Perla, vacate basements as habitations, search for dead rats in yards, houses, bamboos, under broken concrete, etc., and will close up openings in structural bamboo by means of tin and cement. Emphasis is placed upon the necessity for permanently vacating basements and men will be sent back over the ground daily to see that the persons moved out do not return. Reports are desired so that prosecutions for violations of the law may be instituted if necessary.
[Signed] T. W. Jackson,