Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1878 — Two Children Die of Hydrophobia. [ARTICLE]

Two Children Die of Hydrophobia.

’ About three months ago two of the children of Mrs. Ferlin, residing on Jourdan avenue, near the levee, were playing in the green near tho residence of their parent, and were attacked by a savage dog, the property of a colored woman named Mme. Pierre, and severely bitten. One of the two, a little boy, aged two years, was bitten in the arm and face and the girl in the ankle. The dog, at the request of the owner, was killed immediately and the children attended by a physician. A few days after the children were, it was thought, well, and played around the house as usual. One month later- the. boy complained of being ill, and, after a-fevr days, dicd es what wasdeclared by the physician to be hydrophobia. Just one month and two days after the depth of the little boy, last Saturday, Viotorine told her mother that her leg, at the place where she had been bitten, pained her. Hardly had the child been removed to her bed than she complained of violent pains in the stomach and expressed an ardent desire for water; but as soon as the liquid was handed to her she repulsed it The next day, whenever anyone would approach, she would complain that their breathing was so violent that it annoyed her extremely, and during the four days of her illness, whenever any of the dogs of the house would enter her room she would scream and oriter it taken away. On Wednesday the pains increased considerably, and, after terrible agony, Victorias died at two o’clock Thursday morning. -*~ 4 Vcw Orleans Picayune.