Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — TO STAMP OUT RABIES. [ARTICLE]

TO STAMP OUT RABIES.

“Muzzle all the dogs in Chicago for a period of six months and there will be no more rabies,” said Dr. A. Lagorio of the Pasteur institute of Chicago. “There could be no better time than the present l’or such a step, because it is during the winter and early spring that rabies is/nost easily spread, Contrary to the superstition that the summer months are the ones during which a dog is most liable to booome hnad,’ tliere are few genuine cases of rabies developed at that time. Warm weather seems to kill the rabies germ, while it thrives during the cold months. “It is not &o inach to prevent people from being bitten that I would suggest a muzzling measure, but to prevent the spread of the disease. A rabid dog is capable of inoculating another animal as much as eighty days before lie’shows any pronounced symptoms, and during that time he may bite a great many dogs,. “An absolute order that would provide for the muzzling of every dog in Chicago would wipe out every trace of rabies within three months. I am inclined to think that such a move will be necessary within a short time.” —Chicago Tribune.