| Show t i 1 I I t r rr ra W uld Do r a A Well Known Physician Urges Their Banish Banish- Banishment t 8 L 4 anent ment to Remove a Serious Menace to tok k 1 I JI t tr n nN N r J y rc ii Human Health and Also as a r Kindness to the Animals J a I 1 On the y left leff B H the torturing y Diagrammatic te muzzle which view of one of of ofa a most cities re j V New York City's City's infested infested quire dogs to many dog wear when a tx streets The c circled circled i ir r c led they appear 7 B t W A crosses on the upper side side- side 7 on the streets t walk indicate the location of 4 S 1 y jB t E B y disease spreading disease spreading fifth left by byI by 1 dogs twenty-eight twenty disgusting disgusting go I q i 6 heaps by actual count on oa one side aide of ofa I c J x H I i S 1 j a l single gle block length of street Similar k W conditions on thousands of miles or o H Ja t streets throughout the country produce r ti K 4 what Dr Lieb thinks a serious menace to the public health I h ha a r i i I r tt in your minds mind's eye ee a city PICTURE where th the only living creatures are human beings A city that has banished horses cats and dogs does cows cos pigs and other useful and friendly ani- ani animals ani animals mals along with rats mice and sundry undesirables of low degree Such a place would seem strange in indeed deed but Dr Clarence W Lieb a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York physician specializing in disorders of the stomach and intestines emphatically emphatically cally believes that our O cities would be better safer places to live in if they were just like that i ilie lie would rid every populous center of all the Fido's and Tabbies and Dob Dob- Dobbins Dobbins bins that are in them in such great num num- numbers num- num numbers numbers bers to-day to Even the seemingly inno- inno innocent inno innocent cent pigeon would be barred If he had hadt hadi t i the authority to stage the great clean up clean that he advocates Everyone Every one agrees with him that a and community is greatly to be desired But Bat why ban the dogs docs and friend cats cats friendly cats friendly I creatures creatures that have hobnobbed with man for centuries and given a deal of happiness for their companionship Why should they be booted outside the city limits For several reasons says Dr Lieb First of all because cities would be much healthier places without them Dogs leave altogether too much filth around especially in closely congested areas where thousands of If people keep them in houses apartments and hotels declares the physician The The problem of dogs in cities is to tomy tomy tomy my mind a serious one says say's says Dr Lieb for it is known that they are carriers of certain parasites that can be trans trans- transmitted transmitted to man The dog tapeworm for example The bacteria that thrive ve in inthe inthe inthe the intestines of many dogs are a positive positive positive tive danger to human uman health These pets clutter the public high high- highways highways ways with unhealthy filth that dries and andis andis andis is blown about by the wind to be breathed into the lungs longs of every one Thousands of If city dwellers keep dogs penned up in small apartments Often these dogs are sick and old They are wheezing and sneezing around on chairs and beds and rugs spreading infection that gets onto the hands and into the clothing of adults and children Every city has its quota of people who are nervous and sick and t toe tin lap yip ping ping and barking of dogs agg aggi their unfortunate condition Dogs roam roam- roaming roaming roaming ing the streets of a congested city even on leashes hamper traffic and cause more than a few accidents But if it it is a menace to public health and and I know that it is to have ha so many dogs in thickly populated populated populated areas areas- areas the situation is also cruel from the dogs doga point of view It is natural for a dog to run free out oat of doors to eat food other oter than the he scraps scrap left from a city dwellers dweller's table i Most lost dogs that are kept in large cities are arc cooped up in houses and apart apart- apartments ments meats most of the time and aId are arc taken out leash for few on a a minutes exer ezer exercise exercise cise every day Some dogs seldom get out into the open air This is downright cruelty to them I myself am a great lover of dogs and I think the world of the English English bull ball pup I have at my home in Pine Pinecrest the Pinecrest crest crest- the on But Dut if it I I move into New NewYork NewYork York Cit City I will not bring me I can appreciate that my my suggestion j I I f- f v 4 z f s sa sa a a f tV vAlbert 1 t I t v vI I fi fit t f yam IJ p Albert Payson Terhune is one of many dog lovers who think it cruel to keep dogs like these tr or others of any great size ina in a city t to ban dogs and cats from d p cities will raise a great hue and cry among own own- ers era of these pets People 1 0 ay will talk about their rights and howl about America 4 Yr y being a free country But Butr p such opposition would be sighted short under under pres pres- present f ent conditions The ob- ob objectors should think less lessof of themselves and morn more t i it t y about the public good and ti the good of the animals Ives Dr Lieb does not ton con t r fine his objections to dogs e en n wwi rat and cats in our large cities y J JS S y entirely to the matters of public health and humane ness lie He carries the ques ques- question tion into the the field of so- so sociology This Thu silly pampering of dogs and the cats has undoubtedly taken the minds of many women off the important matter of maternity maternity ma- ma maternity the tho physician states bluntly If It many women did didn't lt have animal pets to fuss over they might he interested ted in loving children of their own or giving a little thought to s some me of the tho great number of unfortunate little waifs that stand so o much in need of care I dare say Bay that the money spent on dogs and cats in New York City in a single year would be more than enough to build and support for some time a bcd bed 2000 childrens children's hospital Dr Lieb regards the cats as every bit bitas bitas bitas as undesirable as tho the dogs and is all for barring them from every urban area As As for being necessary to catch rats and mice the doctor argues I think one good rat trap would do do the work work ot of f a i y 5 5 rP The horse according to Dr Lieb Liebis is a nuisance to himself and every every- body everybody else in the busy traffic ofa of a great city I several cats And It doesn't cost any anything thing to feed a tI rat trap Most Host Most cats are unsympathetic and un on unfriendly friendly animals anyway They haven't the companionable nature of a dog But the important thing is that they too toe are germ carriers Their fur is an ideal lodging place for dirt and it is possible to for them to pick up and peddle tho the bac bac- bac Un im 1 W 7 1 of 1 r Pt ima ur IDa loo Y r 3 f a eb terms teria of bf f contagious diseases such stich as diphtheria scarlet fever and chicken pox B I cannot point my finger anger at J any particular cat and definitely i definitely state that it browsed browsed around outdoors and went home with tho rho the germs that that brought a hu- hu human hu human u- u 1 man being down with i diphtheria but that is not necessary It is aS a S d i matter of common knowl knowl-i knowl edge among the medical profession that animals are carriers of disease germs Li As for the horse Dr Lieb includes him in the blacklist with a feeling of sympathy for he ho appreciates ap ap- predates that the horse i did a great deal of the hard work of America I before the automobile f became a practical means f of transportation and ei since I The horse has certainly served New York York t nd every other great city city well and he ha still has a place place in the modem modern scheme of of things the doctor points out But Dut in the busy tram traffic of a great city h lie he is a nuisance Ho lie holds up motor traffic and has a pretty tough life pounding around on the hard pave pavements men menu ments The conditions are such that he be cannot always get food and water when he needs it The Tho horse-drawn horse vehicle is the one weak spot in the troublous and increasing increasing ing fag traffic problems in the bl big city It might work a hardship on a few people to bar horses from congested urban but areas but every move for the good of othe the greatest number is an inconvenience to some one In N New w York City for instance I believe that the traffic problem would be cleared up 25 per cent if the horse hOlse were kept out of the busy stream of automo r bile traffic that fills our streets espe espe- espe especially in ill the business sections It is an almost daily occurrence to see a dead horse or two on the New York streets and I nave cave ave seen such carcasses laying around almost in a state of de- de decomposition decomposition de decomposition composition Such things are far from froman froman froman an aid to public health Dr Lieb would go after the filthy spreading spreading disease rats with with rat squads quads armed with the most effective of nants nants He lie would try to prevent rats from landing off ships and place a bounty on their heads to spur spur public interest in exterminating them To state the proposition in a few words D Lieb would rid cities from all legged legged four animals and would ban one legged two legged the creature creature the pigeon The pigeon he ha says is a duty dirty thing that besmirches our parks and practically every city building In Venice pigeons are something of an institution and are aro tolerated for reasons of senti senti- sentiment sentiment ment but we have no such excuse for allowing them to disfigure out our most moat beautiful structures and add to the great and unwholesome total of animal filth that is blown about the streets and breathed into human throats and lungs Ono Ona public health official has esti etti estimated mated that fully 80 per cent of the dust that is whisked around in the air of our cities is animal filth full fall of all kinds of bacteria dangerous to human health I believe this is true There Thero is iy to get back to pigeons a form of bird tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis and there is no proof that the disease is not transmitted to pian In an article recently published in inthe in inthe inthe the New York Medical Week Dr Lieb stated his bis conviction that something should be done to rid New ew York and the thickly populated areas around it of ot the menace of animal filth If human welfare is of primary im fm importance in present-day present methods of pre pre- preventive pre preventive medicine there is much mach to be said in favor of expelling all four footed four animals in New York this article be- be began began be began gan and he got immediately to the job of explaining the dog dog menace lie He e made little of the wakeful nights that dogs baying at the moon cause many citizens or of the New Yorkers who were bitten by dogs in six months time but he lIe emphatically ob- ob objected ob objected to the animal filth distributed the sidewalks of New York East York EastSide Side West Side and all around the town Dr Lieb fully realizes the tremendous d difficulty of convincing millions of city dwellers dweller that their pets area are a Ii serious l A cat cats cat's s fur is isan II isan an ideal lodging place for dirt and Ithe the germs of scarlet fever diphtheria and other contagious contagious con- con I diseases i menace to the public health and securing I the legislation necessary to limit every I city's population to human beings and j birds But Bat he is sure that the danger cre ere created by the presence of animals in our congested congested areas justifies such a crusade Albert Payson Terhune the famous writer writer of ot dog stories and breeder of blooded blooded blue collies would not go so far farns faras faras ns as to bar all dogs from cities but he be doe does think that a city is no fit place for fora fora fora a large dog He lie will not knowingly sell sella sella sella a dog from his kennels to anybody who plans to give it a city home Lieb There is in New York City says Dr Lieb a haven for stray animals which was of course established with the best of intentions Lost pedigreed dogs and curs of every hue and breed are taken there to be washed and fed and pro pro pro- protected from harm Hundreds of nomadic cats are likewise taken there to live a happ happy existence with fellow fellor- felin I suppose that the milk of human kindness started and operates this haven I do not like to see dumb animals suffer either but I believe belie that it would be much better for the cats and anda dogs and a worthwhile saving of money to put these creatures creatures out of the tho way They are doing no one any good Such con conservation of life lite in New Now York and other cities is is to mind my misplaced senti ment The The doctor appreciates that children instinctively love Jove the ho household that he pets would bar from our large cities and that they would for a time miss miss mis having such animals around His HIS sug is is that cities set oft off a n space in public parks where dogs cats and even horses can be comfortably housed just justas as wild animals k are aro kept pt un 11 zoos day to-day He lIe would have the various breeds of dogs and cats too on exhibit These animals are e especially because interesting be cause canse they havo have come into closer c com com- m companionship with man than any other of the beasts says ays Dr Lieb It Is ig in way away unfortunate that the a metropolis isn't is no place for them modern modem but it Public health is ia a serious business and in m places where thousands and thou thousands t sands of people live Jive and work in a com com- corn Com 7 small T area everything y C Possible should be done to make life s fe clean I believe the time has arrived and New York arid and in other cities when disease e carrying animals and the unhealthy th they y lea leave e around should be bo filth ruled outs out's out |
