Letter: Letters: First fleas?

From D. W. BUDWORTH

The cat-flea story is at least six years older than Feedback suggests
(29 August).

I have a copy of an article by Tim Robinson from the New Scientist of
17 June 1976, whose summary reads: ‘A warm summer and increasingly cosy
homes are encouraging a population boom in cat fleas – a development more
harmful to humans than cats.’

Perhaps you could offer a small prize for the earliest recorded appearance
of this hardy perennial.

D. W. Budworth London