1.   But he would give no specifics about funding or staffing for future rat control efforts.

2.   Cost of rat control, like everything else, has gone up.

3.   His concern about health problems among the poor prompted him to develop successful programs in urban rat control and the prevention of childhood lead poisoning.

4.   It takes a shock from time to time, like seeing rats at Gracie Mansion, to re-energize the task of rat control.

5.   These included such things as rat control, good food supply, clean water and inoculations against disease.