Arizona republican., 1912-09-11
WILL FIGHT
 THE RABIES
Drs. Severn nd Lowe Unite With Police in Effort to Eradicate the Disease From the Dogs of This City.

With the aid of the city council and the city police, State Veternarian Sev- ern and City Yeternarian Lowe be- lieve it win be possible to soon stamp out the prevalence of rabies in this city. Council has approved the re- quest of Drs. Severn and Lowe that the ordinance requiring that all dogs shall be muzzled or kept tied up be strictly enforced Chief of Police Moore, even before this request was made, has issued orders that all ca hines in Phoenix should be tagged and that all permitted to run at large should be muZzled.
 With the direct sanction of council he will now press an aggressive cam paign to the end that no unmuZzled dog shall be found at large in the city.
 City Physician Sargent stated yes terdav that every precaution should be taken by the parents of any child who may be bitten by any dog, wheth- CT it appears that the animal is rabid or not. He said that after calling a physician, the wound should be treated either with alcohol, iodine, turpentine or even good. clean warm water. In this manner it is often possible to eradicate the germs with which the bitten child may be inoculated and prevent hydrophobia.
 Drs. Severn and Lowe have issued a request that whenever dog may be killed after having bitten any person or having shown signs of the rabies, the body be brought to them in order that an examination may be made to determine whether or not the animal was suffering with rabies.
 In the current issue of the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine ap- pears an interesting article on the prevalence of rabies in the United tates It says:
 A NJ Stimson, past assistant sur geon. Public Health and Marine Hos- pital Service. in Public Health Bulle- tin % gives the results of an inV2sti gation as to the prevalence of rabies in tiIa United States. which fOrcibly emphasizes the need of vigorous meas ures for the eradication of this disease or at the very least to check it's alarm ing spread.
 According to a similar survey made three years ago rabies did not exist in 1 the states on the Pacific coast at that time but it is now found throughout that region and in a largely increased number of localities in most of the states in which it was found three years ago In other words there has 1 been a gereralized spread of rabies ir , this country during the past three years. the total number of infected l localities reported in 1908 being 534e
 while in 1911 rabies was reported from l 1881 localities.
 1 "The number of rabid animals re- | ported in 1908 was 3393; in 1911 it was
 4.625. In 1908 there were Ill deaths 1 in man from this disease but in 1911 l only 98 or a decreace of more thar | twelve per cent, notwithstanding tht i increased prevalence of the disease 1 While this decrease may be due t( | chance the probabilities are that 1t i due to a much nor wide spread resor to antirabic inoculations during thu | latter period.
 "The number of persons known t' have taken antirabic treatment in 19O was 15OO while for 1911 it was 4,625 The decrease in the number of human | deaths. COlQclueHl NlNi bllV ALOAN in the number of antirablc inocula
 tions. at least effectually disposes O the claim still advanced by opponent
 of the Pasteur method that this treat
 ment causes, rather than prevent 1 rabies.
 Tn three persons the period of in cubation is believed to have eXtende 1 over a year; excluding these eases tn average period of incubation in ma
 was 1925 days with the greater mum 1. ber of cases falling between tWent and thirty days. No case developed l less than ten days after inoculation ,, "The death rate from rabies. in tn
 nersons taking treatment was eight
 tenths of one per cent, one-thlrd . which was due either to delayed treat
 ment or to too short incubation pel
 iods to permit of immuniZaton."