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IT had been supposed for a long time that the ship or ‘black’ rat, Rattus rattus L., did not occur in sewers in Britain. There was a record from the sewers of Lima, Peru1, but no such records existed for the United Kingdom.
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Eskey, C. R., Epidemiological Study of Plague in Peru, U.S.A., Pub. Health Rep., 47, 2191–2207 (Nov. 18, 1932).
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DAVIS, R. Occurrence of the Black Rat in Sewers in Britain. Nature 175, 641 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175641a0
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