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IN view of the serious depredations on food stocks by rats, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries considers that the annual Rat Week should be held this year notwithstanding the war. The Week will begin on November 6, and the Minister asks everyone to make a special effort during the week to destroy any rats on their own lands and premises and to take all possible steps towards securing concerted action against these vermin. The Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, places an obligation upon every occupier of ‘land’, which term includes buildings on or under land, to take steps to destroy rats and mice on the property which he occupies and to prevent such property from becoming infested. The Ministry's Advisory Leaflet No. 49—“The Destruction of Rats and Mice” contains information and advice on methods for dealing with rats. A copy may be obtained free of charge from the Offices of the Ministry, 10 Whitehall Place, London, S.W.1. Further information on the subject of rats is contained in Bulletin No. 30, “Rats and How to Exterminate Them”, copies of which are obtainable through any bookseller, or direct from H.M. Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, price 6d. (7d. post paid).
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National Rat Week. Nature 144, 661 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144661d0
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