The Lady and the Sewer Rat

I have just had a lady arrive at the door with a sick sewer rat. She found it in a gutter and scooped it up. Commendable suppression of naturally squeamish instincts and definite "Brownie" points for not calling for emergency attendance at the scene.

Swiftly relieved of rodent by gloved staff she was escorted into the scrub room. I supervised her medical ablutions and by the time she was debriefed on every aspect of rat zoonosis from the Black Death to Weil' disease she would have stripped and handed over her clothes for burning had I so requested.

You can overdo it of course. My wife once so thoroughly and earnestly explained the lifecycle of the cat flea that the client panicked.

He took a decorator's blowtorch to the skirting boards under which the flea larvae were lurking. The house caught fire.

As the procedure was no part of my wife's advice he could not sue. At least not in London in 1969!

Robin

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