Medical Inspector in Charge of Plague Suppression.
Specimen order issued to Assistants.
May 4, 1913. Station "C," Bureau of Health:
Please place work parties in (interior) 1627–1629 Sande and 525 C. Azcarraga, to clean, disinfect and thoroughly investigate these premises and the houses, stables and other buildings in the vicinity. Search for rats, living and dead, rat nests and rats in bamboos and wood piles, stone piles, stables, under planks and elsewhere. Cement the openings in bamboos in houses or close with tin. Make notes on needed structural work. Do the work as thoroughly as possible.
[Signed] T. W. Jackson,
Medical Inspector in Charge of Plague Suppression.
Method of Procedure in Collecting and Forwarding Rats Suspected of Plague Infection to the Laboratory in Manila, P. I.—Rat catching,—trapping and poisoning,—is conducted in accordance with instructions contained in the Sanitary Inspector's Handbook (pp. 36, 37, 38) issued by the Bureau of Health.
Rats are collected in Manila and forwarded to the Bureau of Science for autopsy and for biologic examination for the presence of plague bacilli in the following manner:
The various groups of rat catchers are provided with receptacles (iron pails) and a supply of a mixture of kerosene, cresol and water (kerosene 10 parts, cresol 2 parts; water 88 parts).
In these vessels, filled with the pulicidal mixture, the rats are immersed, with a minimum amount of handling, as soon as they are found (whether in traps or dead from poison).