Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — Mad Dog Season Opens. [ARTICLE]

Mad Dog Season Opens.

•Pr. E. N. Lay sent to the state board of health this week the head of a dog which belonged to Wm. Reed of near Surrey. The dog had been acting strangely, although a valuable animal the owner did not hesitate to have it killed. The report from the state laboratory shows it to be a case of hydrophobia. If all the citizens would act as promptly as did Mir. Reed, this dreadful disease would soon be stamped out. The old idea of dog days and hot weather being the dangerous period of the year is a mistaken one. The disease is always more prevalent during the spring months.