Sentence examples for rat population was from inspiring English sources

The damp, cramped conditions, with rubbish and litter strewn in the streets, create an ideal environment for vermin and a report earlier this year estimated the rat population was growing annually by 10 per cent.

When the island was garrisoned in 1815, its rat population was already so large and so fearless that a diary purporting to be by an eighteenth century Dutch sailor marooned on Ascension as punishment for sodomy says he feared they would eat him.

He said he believed the rat population was generally growing, blaming the greater availability of food - from takeaway wrappers and leftover rubbish - coupled with generally milder winters, which helps breeding.

When these surveys were repeated in 2004, the total Norway rat population was essentially unchanged [25].

By Mr. Auerbach's calculations, the rat population is a mere two million, give or take 150,000.

"I want the city to come check everything out because the rat population is a dangerous thing," Ms. Flores said.

Surveys were taken and 179 blocks were slated for action, neighborhoods with the most dense rat population were first on the list.

MANHATTAN: NEW RAT PANEL URGED -- A City Council committee looking into the increase in the rat population is to recommend today that City Hall establish a permanent rat-control authority, supervised by the Department of Health.

Rats are capable of carrying highly contagious diseases like typhus and bubonic plague, but city health officials say the rat population is more of a nuisance than a health threat.

"The rat population is not down," said Rich Miller, owner of Broadway Exterminating Company, on Amsterdam Avenue near 98th Street, who said his clients came mainly from Manhattan, with some from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

Continual monitoring of the rat population is needed along with studies in people to understand how the animals and the microbes they carry make us sick, Dr. Lipkin notes.