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Show ANIMALS SPREAD DISEASE SAYS LOUISIANA DOCTOR? 'ft Special Inspector of State Board of Health Gives Some Facts About Dread White Plague. i Philadelphia. Frederick! Mayer of New Orleans, speclnl medical Inspector Inspec-tor of the Louisiana state board of N health, said to tho members of tho- Amerlcnn Veterlnnry Medical association, asso-ciation, In convention hero, thnt tho veterinarians can do much to prevent the spread of consumption among hu-mnn hu-mnn beings. Ho showed how dlscnso-spread dlscnso-spread from animals to human bolngsj IIo favored a law requiring tho muzzling muz-zling of all dogs and one requiring tho destruction of "all homeless curs." The objection of "maudlin sentimentalists" sentimen-talists" to this, ho said, should he Ignored. Ig-nored. After discussing tho proofs thnt dlsense germs arc transmitted from cattlo and other animals to human hu-man beings, Dr. Mayer said: "You veterinarians havo it In your power to put a stop to the spread of these germs. A gieat part of tho responsibility re-sponsibility for the prevention of tuberculosis tu-berculosis rests with you." |