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The foreman of a ratproofing crew in New Orleans, Louisiana, pointing out the progress of the work to Public Health Service officer Dr. Charles V. Aiken. Bubonic plague broke out in New Orleans in June 1914. Full plague control operations such as this continued until 1916 when the city was declared free of infection.
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