Show P0 S SpREAP C11PHTHERhIA The Poor Ai n1HS her luidL Often Die of the Dread Disease New York Recorder Tile Anneed district is In a big scare over an epidemic of diphtheria among dogs The animals have all the symptoms symp-toms exhibited In the human being swollen Eonsils jnafoility to swallow and unless they are treated in a satIsfactory sat-isfactory skillful manner they are apt to die in the same manner as children afflicted with the dread disease Dr J J Fox the veterinary surgeon of One Hundred and Seventeenth street and Bathgate avenue is authority au-thority for this information and asserts as-serts positively i that the dogs have been dyIng toy the wholesale under the ravages of diphtheria just because the owners were Ignorant of the cause He has lost a valuable Newfoundland dog which died desjttle his skill while Albert Newkirk orOne Hundred and Seventeeneh sheet and Washington avenue mourns tha Joss of a fine St Bernard which recently took several prizes at the dog show from the same cause Several hundred other dbgs of more or less i importance have passed away or are projvliiig around still Buffering J > > The fact of the animals being at large1 is a serious matter for the com imurilty to consider as children are just as apt to catch the disease from the canlne sufferers as they would be from a human being This is especially especial-ly vital as children are more apt to fondle the animals and may carry the germs with them and disseminate them in the school I A dozen or more little children have recently died of diphtheria which the veterinary surgeon thinks can be directly di-rectly traced to dogs which spread the contagion While dogs are dying from the disease dis-ease in theannexed district there is some one at work who evidently Is of the opinion that they are not dying off fast enough This is evinced by the fact that in the last week there has been a wholesale poisoning of dogs in that section of the town At One Hundred and Sixtyninth street and Boston avenue directly in front of William F Howes house lie the bodies bod-ies of a Newfoundland a bull terrier and a mongrel The dogs were poisoned poison-ed and their bodies have been in the street for three days On One Hundred 1 Hun-dred and Sixtyninth street near Fulton Ful-ton avenue are the bodies of two more evidently poisoned I William Lurdefield of 13S4 Franklin I avenue was the owner of three valuable i valu-able animals and three nights ago at midnight he saw a man in his yard and heard the dogs making a fuss Next morning Prince a skye terrier I was missing and the other two were Sick Within a few days E Gordon I Copp of 1556 Franklin avenue has lost a valuable St Bernard of which he has no trace while at 1366 Franklin avenue one dog has died in the yard and another is missing |