1 ^Q microscope. To the cognizant the new picture was beautiful. 

 Venzke covered the animal area thickly and daily with new 

 sawdust and brought to rest upon it some hundreds of wire 

 cages, each housing a rat or two — not the white coated, but the 

 sewer trained. 



Without the loss of so much as a day, Wherry continued his 

 San Francisco labors. Before long he could write: "Of over 

 30 000 rats examined . . ."In more public fashion his pres- 

 ence was desired to address the members of Council in Oak- 

 land, the town's chamber of commerce and various business 

 organizations. Money was needed, Wherry declared, not only 

 to keep anti-plague measures suppressive but to make them 

 eradicative. He set forth the record of what had been done in 

 San Francisco: 



The organization and conduction of an anti-plague sanitary 

 campaign in a city of almost half a million and covering 3 

 square miles of territory are no small matter. About 1000 men 

 were employed as medical and sanitary inspectors, laborers and 

 rat catchers. Since the main efforts of the campaign were 

 directed against the rat, its destruction and that of its nests and 

 breeding places occupied a prominent place. To this were 

 added sanitary inspections and the installation of tightly cov- 

 ered garbage cans. Over 7000 (human) dead were inspected 

 and all suspicious cases autopsied; about 2000 sick and one 

 million and a half premises were inspected; 11,000 houses were 

 disinfected and 1700 destroyed; over 6,000,000 square feet 

 of concrete flooring was laid in basements and stables and over 

 2,000,000 rats destroyed by trapping and poisoning. 



These measures had reduced morbidity and mortality — 

 more pleasing to business, brought a lift of quarantine against 

 the bay cities. Wherefore, business and politics were for letting 

 down in their subscriptions — and did. Wherry cried: "You 

 have decided to waste what has already been expended and to 

 invite another outbreak." Majority answer to Wherry's argu- 

 ment was a question: "What's in this for you, Doc?" 



Wherry fled to his laboratory. 



On June 19, 1908, his love for children was satisfied at 

 home when his son was born. The elder Wherry out of India 



