The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-20
DIED OF DOC BITE
Of Five Children Bitten by
Mad Canine Two De-
veloped Hydrophobia.
SUFFERED TERRIBLE AGONY
Wounds Were Cauterized and
Boys Were Treated, But
Medical Aid Was I'm
availing.

Eight-year-old John Kazan, of No. 149
Morgan street, died a victim to hydro
phobia yesterday afternoon at the City
Hospital after suffering terrible agony.
Death came in the middle of a racking
convulsion as the boy snapped and snared
Ike mad dog at those about him, a bark
| dying on his lips. He had been brought
l'to the hospital at IL 80 O'Clock and at 1:3v
| o'clock he died, though the most heroic
| efforts were made to save his life. The
physicians used the anodine and sanative
| treatments, but they did not alleviate the
patients suffering a trihe. So serious was
| the case when the boy was taken to the
| hospital that no hope was expressed. DR..
Banta, the house surgeon, did not leave
the patients bed during the two hours
he was alive and he says that never in
| his experience has he witnessed such
pitiable and intense agony. CONFUSION
after convulsion followed in quick success
sion, each worse than its predecessor,
| that the weakened boy was in an ex-
hausted condition when the end came.
Kazan is the second to die of the bite
| of mad tramp dog that ran through the
streets on July % and bit four children
before it was forced into the river at the
| foot of Morris street and shot to death
| by a policeman.
| The first victim was seven-year-old Ed
ward Eckert, of No 502 West Fifteenth
street. New York City, who, though
treated at the Pasteur Institute in New
York City, died in terrible agony at his
home on August &C. swapping at and al
most biting his mother.
| At the time the child was bitten he
was on visit to his grandmother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Kately, of No. 215 Mercer street.
| He was the first of the four bit by the
dog an dwas Immediately removed to the
| City Hospital. Here his wounds were
cauterized and he was given the usual
{ treatment for such cases. Mrs. Kately
did not have confidence in the hospital
physicians and had the lad removed to his
home Elm New York City, from where he
was taken to the Pasteur Institute. There
symptoms of hydrophobia were discover
ed, and after some treatment Mrs. Eek
ert was advised to take the boy to Belle
vue Hospital This she refused to do un-
der the impression that she could best
| treat her son at home. AS in the case
of young Kazan, Eckert suffered no more
serious effects than acute pains, in the
affected parts until about two hours be-
fore the end. Then the lad barked, snap
ped. snarled and frothed at the mouth.
| Mrs. Kazan when seen by a News
| reporter at her home said through an in-
| terpreter:-
'My son was bitten by a mad dog on
July %. Both of his hands were horribly
chewed. The wounds were cauterized and
in week or two they were healed up and
he felt all right. Once in a while he
would complain of pain in the hands but
they soon ceased. He was all right until
Monday afternoon when he came home
from school and complained of pains in
the hands and head He could not eat.
Tuesday he did not get out of bed and
acted queerly. did everything could
to get him to eat but he would not. We'd
nesday he was very sick and in such pain
that he cried constantly.
"wednesday evening I sent for DR..
Baker and he came and said John had
hydrophobia. Yesterday morning very
early John began to bark like a dog and
to chew the bed clothes. He snapped at
me when I went near him. When DR..
Baker called yesterday morning he or
dered John to the City Hospital and the
ambulance came and took him away. He
died at half-past one o'clock and they
brought him home dead at five o'clock"
Here the poor woman wept until it
seemed that her heart would break.
DR.. Baker when seen at his home, No.
103 Mercer street, said
1.-THE boy showed signs of rabies We'd
nesday night late and yesterday morning
1 saw the case was hopeless. ordered his
removal to the City Hospital The boy
did not receive proper treatment imme-
diately after the wound was cauterized.
He should have been looked after care
fully so that at the first symptoms proper
steps could have been taken to prevent
just what occurred
House Surgeon Banta of the City Hos
pital said:
"When the boy came here at 11:30
O'Clock yesterday morning ne was hope
less case We used the best known treat
ment to save the lads life but he was too
far gone His agony was terrible and
could be relieved only by death. He bark
ed and snapped and snarled like made
dog and it was a very pathetic case in
deed"
Mrs Elizabeth Kately, the grandmother
of Eddie Eckert, the first victim, when
seen at her home this morning by
| News reporter said
when Eddie was bitten he was taken
to the City Hospital. His left leg was af-
fected. After the wound was cauterized
I did not like the slow progress made
with the case at the hospital and I had
him removed to his home in New York
city. / then advised his mother to take
him to the Pasteur Institute and she did
So. There the physicians Immediately dis
covered symptoms of hydrophobia and
they gave the boy some treatment and
advised his mother to take him to Belle
vue Hospital She thought she could bet
ter care for him at home. She kept the
boy indoors all the time and on August 10
he went to bed suffering with pains in the
leg. He soon began to bark and snarl
and continued to do SO until he died on.
August 26."
A boy and girl who wer also bitten
by this dog are living at their homes in
this city and showing no symptoms Of
hydrophobia, so far as their respective
families know They are Dora Broderick,
ten years old. Of No. 165 Morgan street,
ana Robert Kennedy, of No. 50 Newark
avenue. The wounds Of both wer eeauter-
ized ana SO far neither has suffered. Their
parents are nevertheless alarmed because
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