Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — HYDROPHOBIA IS EPIDEMIC. [ARTICLE]

HYDROPHOBIA IS EPIDEMIC.

The most terrible of al) afflictions, hydrophobia, Is reported to be alarmingly prevalent in Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. A large number of dogs that have been fonnd to be suffering from the malady have been killed, and it is feared that cattle and other stock have been bitten and will go mud. So alarming has the -condition become that Mayor Switzer, of Harrisonburg. his issued a proclamation requiring all dogs to be confined to the lots or property of their owners, and ail dog* found going at large are to he killed and their owners fined.