25 FEBRUARY 1911, Page 14

RAT PLAGUE IN EAST ANGLIA.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."

SIB,—In your issue of February 11th there is an article on "The Rat Problem," towards the end of which, on page 211, you say that " the plague bacillus being known to be firmly estab- lished in Norfolk and Suffolk." Would you kindly state where in Norfolk it is known to be established, as having lived there all the autumn and winter, I have never heard anything about it ; and as the question is likely to be serious if your informa- tion is correct, an answer would oblige P-1 am, Sir, &c., [The mention of Norfolk was a mistake. The counties should have been Suffolk and Essex.—ED. Spectator.]