Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS
Patients Now Taking Pasteur Treat
ment at the Hygienic Laboratory.
ALL DOGS ORDERED MUzzLED
District Poundmaster Instructed to
Watch Suburbs for Stray AMI
mails From Maryland.

With five persons adults and children.
taking Pasteur treatment at the hygienic
laboratory in this city, after having been
bitten by a rabid dog and by dogs sus-
pected Of having rabies. the town Of Chevy
Chase Nd, is excited over the mad dog
question. and has adopted a muzzle ordi-
nance. which becomes effective tomorrow.
Strong and substantial muzzles have been
ordered on all dogs in the village, to be
worn for three months.
w. T. S. Curtis, president of the board
of trustees Of Chevy Chase, Md. has
signed bulletin containing the ordinance
and the recommendation of DR.. Thomas
K. Conrad, health officer, which calls at
tention to the recent attacks on children
by dogs known to be rabid. The village
clerk has been ordered to send a copy
of the ordinance to every dog owner in
the community, and every person has
been urged to cooperate in the observ-
ance Of the regulation, las it so vitality
affects every person In the village
Watch on the Suburbs.
In the meantime, Health Officer Wood
ward Of the District of Columbia has or
dered the pound men to pay strict atten-
ton to the northwest boundaries of the
District, and to nab all unmuzzled and
untagged dogs without mercy, as it has
been reported that mad dogs have strayed
into Washington from Maryland.
An English bulldog belonging to James
f. Barbour of Chevy Chase, Md, was
killed and sent to the bureau of ami
NAL industry about a week ago. 1t was
reported that the dog had bitten an en-
ploye of his master. The bureau made
a microscopic examination and found ne
sri bodies in the hippocampus, which in
dicated that the dog was mad and that no
further inoculation or examination was
needed With this report was a state
ment that the bull dog had bitten other
dogs, all owned in Chevy Chase Nd, and
that one family of dogs, pointer mother
and litter of pups. was now confined
and under observation.
Names Not Divulged.
DR.. John F. Anderson of the hygienic
laboratory said this morning:
I'VE are treating five people from Chevy
Chase, Md, all Of whom have been bitten
by dogs, rabid or suspected. We cannot
furnish their names"
The communication of DIR. Conrad,
health officer of Chevy Chase, Md, to w.
I. S. Curtis, president of the board Of
trustees of the village. is as follows:
There have recently developed in our
village several cases rapIes amone
dogs. This disease threatens TO becoma
epidemic. In view of recent attacks upon
children by dogs known to be rabid. 1, as
health officer, il it meets with the APP
prevail of the board, strongly recommend
the enactment: of ordinance requir-
ing the muzzling of all dogs for at least
three months"
Little Child Badly Bitten.
This letter was presented to the board
of trustees December at meeting.
The letter afterward formed the main
part of resolutions wherein it was stated
that December 3 little child was badly
bitten by a mad dog III Chevy Chase.
Md, and that an ordinance must be pass
ed muZzllng dogs, a protection
lives.
The ordinance declares that after De-
cember II all dogs running at large with
out a strong muzzle shall be taken by
the village bailin, impounded and unless
taken out of the pound by the owner
within five days shall be killed. To re-
deem q dog from the pound the owner
must pay s. and show an acceptable
muZzle.