FERRETS FOR HOSPITAL RATS.
Expert Will Make an Effort to Clear
Out the Pest.
Ferrets are to be employed by the health and hospital authorities in exterminating the numerous rats which infest the old hospital building. Mayor Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr., yesterday issued an order directing the purchase of ferrets to be used at the hospital.
Patients in the wards have been attacked by rats and bitten before the nurses could scare them away. After dark the nurses are afraid to enter the wards on account of the pests.
