Preparing Rats to be Tested for Diseases

ID: 225 ~ Source: Image is in the Public Domain, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ~ Date: 1936

This file appears in: Wharf Rats, the Plague, and Public Health

In 1936, the WPA sponsored a public health rat project, rounding up the rodents and testing them for diseases.

This file appears in: Wharf Rats, the Plague, and Public Health

Wharf Rats, the Plague, and Public Health

New Orleans has been a major port since the early 18th century. Until the 1960's, warehouses stood along this part of the river. These warehouses, or wharves, used to teem with the infamous "wharf…