The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-23
DON'T LET your DOG RUN AT
LARGE

| A baby eight months old, who had
| been bitten by neighbor's dog, was
referred to the Pasteur Division of the
State Department of Health. recently,
for treatment to prevent rabies from
developing. Fortunately, prompt in
vestigation showed that the dog was
not mad so the baby was spared the
ordeal of the fourteen treatments re-
quired to give protection against the
disease and the parents were relieved
| of the anxiety and dread that accom-
pany an experience of that sort. OF
the remaining 119 persons for whom
the Pasteur treatment was requested,
during May, because they had either
been bitten or otherwise injured by
animals believed to be rabid, or had
| been in contact with such animals
A were young children under ten
| years old, 28 were between ten and
| fifteen, and the rest were older.
Treatments were started for 81 and
were completed for L. They were
discontinued, or not started for the
rest. when it was found that the ami
mails by which the injuries were in
fiicted, were normal.
Rabies or hydrophobia, as it used
to be called, is the terrible disease
that is caused by the bite of a rabid
animal" DR.. r. H. Riley, Director of
the State Department of Health, said,
injuries to children and warning
against the danger from homeless
dogs or from other dogs running at
large. The disease Spreads" he con-
tinued, from dogs to other animals
by the bite of a rabid animal. Human
beings contract it either through be-
ing bitten or otherwise injured by
rabid animals. They can also ac-
quire it through the saliva from rabid
| min 1o1 limo in until
broken or scratched places in the
skin.
THE disease is fatal, if allowed to
develop. There is absolutely no cure
for it. The only way to prevent it's
development in human beings is by
the prompt cauterization of the injury
and the prompt administration of the
Pasteur treatment. No time should be
lost getting it started.
Care should be taken not to kill
animals unnecessarily. All dogs that
are acting swapping biting or
otherwise acting, suspiciously. should
be tied up, humanely cared for, but
kept where they can't endanger lives,
md under the observation of a vet
erinarian. If the dog is mad, symp-
toms of rabies will soon develop, and
the animal will die within seven days
when a dog that is mad or is be-
| lieved to be mad is killed, the head
should be carefully packed in ice in a
| tight container and shipped to the
Laboratory of the State Department
| of Health for examination Certain
changes that appear in the brain will
show whether or not the dog was mad.
over 1900 persons in Maryland
have been given the protective treat
ment against rabies through the
Pasteur Division of the State Depart
ment of Health, since 1915, when the
| Pasteur treatments were taken over
| by the Department. DR.. C. w. G.
Rohrer, who has been in charge of the
Division since it's establishment, calls
attention to the increase in rabies in
animals in different parts of the State,
and to tn increase in injuries inflicted
by homeless or stray dogs. For the
protection of human beings, and also
| of the. animals themselves. he urges
dog owners, not to let their dogs run
at large"