National Rat Week
There is a thoroughness throughout the Buntingford Rural District area in the preparations for Rat Week, which commenced on Monday in last week.
The apt circular that has been drawn up by the Sanitary Inspector has been distributed to farmers, poultry keepers and others. Last year the effort made an appreciable diminution in the number of rates infesting 16 parishes comprising the Buntingford Rural District.
Good results in the warfare against these rodents are again anticipated this year. Rats detroy millions of pounds worth of food each year, and are moreover most deadly in their activities in carrying disease of various kinds that have been traced to them.
When it is remembered that a pair of rats may in three years multiply to a ravaging hoard of 600,000, the urgent necessity for concerted action for their destruction is overwhelmingly obligatory.