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Show LXJ B' $ 1 1 T B I IT" B"fc B A 'il 1 a UsA HI 11 i EI Llllri Communicated Disease From One Family lo Another Buffalo, N. Y., April 25. Tho whole machinery of the health and police departments de-partments of this, city was required to bring about the official execution of an eight-pound torn cat, which is believed to have been tho cause of a serious epidemic of diphtheria among tho children chil-dren of the Front avenue section. The cat was killed at the city pound yesterday. yes-terday. Twb children In a Front avenue home where the cat abided were tho first to develop the disease. When the children became 111 and before their cases h"d been diagnosed the cat was sent to the home of a friend. The disease broke put there and several other children who had been in contact con-tact with tho cat began to show signs of throat trouble. An inspector from the -health- department de-partment "arrested" the cat with the assistance of tho police and a culture was taken from the "tommy's" throat, Saturday City Bacteriologist Bissel reported that tho animal had dlphthe-rla dlphthe-rla and Health Inspectors and a policeman po-liceman -were ordered to carry out a decree of execution. In another section of the city a canary bird is supposed to have been the cause of a similar diphtheria epidemic. epi-demic. no |