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Show BOXELDER OFFICIALS ABE ROM SCOHEO Dr. T. B. Beatty Says Their Laxity Is Cauce of Spread of Rabies. SITUATION IS SERIOUS Health Board Official Fearful Fear-ful of Greater Spread of Hydrophobia. Denouncing in unmeasured terms the laxity of county officials -which has permitted the spread of the rabies scourge in Boxelder county, until the menace is almost beyond control, Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health, after an extended visit and investigation of existing conditions in that county, returned to his office at the capitol yesterday and freely stated his alarm over the threatened epidemic, which he says he fears will extend to other parts of the state with a rapidity it may be difficult to check. Dr. Beatty says that the county commissioners are still negligent in their attitude and that tiie people of the county are nearly panic stricken, w-hile infected animals are still allowed to run wild. The secretary of the state board is especially vigorous in his criticism of the commissioners, w-ho, he says, have disregarded the reports and advice of experienced ranchers and scientific experts, ex-perts, in refusing to take steps which would have reduced the danger to the minimum. Ordinance Disregarded. Despite the fact that an ordinance was recently passed ordering stray dogs killed and all dogs muzzled, Dr. Beatty asserts that he saw ruuniug free in various va-rious parts of the county dogs without muzzles or liceuse tags. The greatest danger, according to Dr. Beatty, comes from allowing dogs, known to be infected, in-fected, to run free, thereby especially endangering school children on their wav to aDd from the school houses. Dr. Beatty says he has in his possession pos-session evidence of the fact that three animals, a horse, hog and cow, owned by a Corinne district rancher named Nelson, died Thursday of hydrophobia. Even more significant, Dr. Beatty adds, is the fact that two men at Corinne, Bishop Gunnell and Hans Anderson, An-derson, have been bitten by infected animals and are now taking the Pasteur Pas-teur treatment. Dr. Beatty states his belief that the sheepherder" who died at Sunnyside, Wyo., the other day was none other than the man who disappeared from Salt Lake after taking three Pasteur treatments. The health board secretary secre-tary also calls attention to the fact of "the wide range of the depredations of the stricken animals. One he cites ran fullv 100 miles, biting many animals ani-mals along the way, before it was finally killed. Government Helping. The federal government has been doing do-ing its utmost to destroy rabid coyotes, savs Dr. Beatty. The special emergency emer-gency appropriation of $7n,u00 has been wisely expended by the biological survey. sur-vey. 'More than 1000 coyotes have been killed by the federal campaign, and the state health officer declares that with proper county co-operation the entire en-tire threat of serious danger might have been wiped out. At one time, Dr. Beatty Beat-ty adds, 15,000 bait traps under federal fed-eral supervision were out for coyotes. As the state is powerless,- both from financial and other reasons, from entering en-tering the campaign, except to pay bounties, Dr. Beatty especially and urgently ur-gently asks city and county officials and civic associations to compel action in their respective territories. |