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Show Rabies Causes Peat h' ol - j I Geo, Chandler in Ogden I Terrible Agony During Which Patient Is Placed in Steel Cage; George C- Chandler, rear 274 G Washington Wash-ington avenue, died at the Dee hospital hos-pital this morning at 930 o'clock of hydroprobia. Mr. Chandler was bitten by a stray dog just two months ago, near Twenty-seventh street and Jefferson Jef-ferson avenue. This is the first recorded death in Utah from rabies. Mr. Chandler died in the most indescribable inde-scribable agony, his transformation from human to beast being complete. Before he died it was found necessary to confine him to his bed with a steel hood used at the hospital for insane. As tho virulence of the poison developed, de-veloped, he fell to gnashing his teeth, frothing at tho mouth, snapping, clawing claw-ing and raving as does a rabid dog when it dies. His death came after several hours of tho most violent I struggling during which his mind com- J pletely deserted him. fl The disease developed in charac-' teristic fashion, according to Dr. H George Dickson, who attended him. H Tho first symptoms -were a violent antipathy to water. When Dr. Dick- t J son was called to tho Chandler homo J Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock, he J found Mr. Chandler just entering the , IJH first stages, He readily recognized that he was suffering of hydroprobia and H ordered him taken immediately to the . hospital. Mr. Chandler at that time showed the characteristic symptom of rabies. He nearly went Into spasms at the mere sight of water. He was taken to the Deo hospital at ffH 12 o'clock Sunday. His condition rapid-ly rapid-ly became worse until in a rew hours he was violent. No assistance what-ever what-ever could be given to thwart the poison or relieve his condition and he sank from one violent change to an-other an-other until his death occurred at 9:30 H this morning. (Continued on Pago 11.) I ; Rabies Causes Death I of George Chandler H t v (Continued from Page 1) V I Mr , Mr. Chandler was bitten two months K "i ago today. He was delivering meat, H being employed by A. M. Miller at tho H Washington market, and was near H Twenty-seventh street and Jefferson H avenue. The dog grabbed his left hand. H1 : closing its teeth over the two middle H fingers. It hung on and the skin of ' his hand was stripped down the fln- H, , gers slightly before Mr. Chandler could free himself. H t He went to Dr. George Baker to H ; have the wound dressed and first aid H given. He was advised to take the H ) Pasteur treatment but refused. Sani- H j tary Inspector George Shorten, who H ? was familiar with tho case from the H start, said that Mr. Chandler had con- J H : sistently refused to undergo the Pas- H J ; teur treatment, considering tho bite in Hj '; an indifferent manner. ! H ,; ' The wound on his fingers had nearly 1 H I healed over and except for some slight H v. complaint which he made from time to H . time, it "was thought that he had re- ,'j , covered completely from the bite and i ' that no bad effects were anticipated. Hj J ', The wound -on his left ring finger, H !. however, remained somewhat open and H he at times complained slightly about H ? i !t- Hj j . Experiences Slight Change Saturday. Jm ? 1 Saturday he appeared to be under-WB under-WB . going n slight change, although he H : worked the day out at the Washington l nmrket. Mr. Miller, proprietor of the n i place, said this morning that he no- H ' ! ticed his face assuming a raxher -j j strained appearance and asked him I HI j I what was the matter, 'si"!' "Oh, nothing much," he repicld, "ex- r cept that I have a terrible cold." tl "Don't you want to lay off for tho I i day, or are you going to try and fin- I ; ish work?" Mr. Millor asked him. He I :m said he thought he could hold out for I tho day. I m Finishes Day's Work. I ffl Ho finished his Saturday's work and I H went home. I H Sent to Hospital. 18 At his homo his change was steady I W but not very perceptible. He spent a I -K restless night and in tho morning was I m quite noticeably ill. Dr. Dickson was I J summoned and immediately realized I tl that Mr. Chandler -was sutforing of I 1 hydrophobia. Tho patient was nervous I i and strained and at the sight of water I nearly went into spasms, and he could I ' not swallow.. He was ordered removed I to the hospital. I ? After Mr. Chnndler was bitten, Sani- I j fury Inspector George Shorten and Po- Jj : lice Chief Thomas Browning imnicdi- Kj j atcly ordered the capture of the" dog. It was examined and found to be a positive victim of rabies. When this HQ 3 was learned Mr. Shorten advised Mr. ft SL Chandler to take tho Pasteur treat-Rri treat-Rri f" ment but says he laughed off the gravid grav-id a i f case reiused "v?as several times told that he oughlto undergo un-dergo tho course of treatment, but refused. re-fused. Chief to Take Drastic Steps. The death of Mr. Chandler caused tho city sanitary department and the police department to throw added zeal this morning Into a campaign for the extermination of worthless curs in the city. Police Chief Browning said to-da to-da ythat every dog, licensed or not, which is caught without a strong muzzle, muz-zle, will bo taken to the compound at the rear of the city jail and killed. There will be no consideration shown anyone for any reason, he said. A force of five men, three special officers of tho police department and two from the sanitary department, will immediately immedi-ately start scouring the city for dogs and will impound and kill all strays found. The crusade against unmuzzled unmuz-zled dogs was started several weeks ago but there are still dozens of un-I un-I muzzled curs running the streets, chasing automobiles, snapping at bicyclists bicy-clists and waiting to engage in fights with anything appearing. With the prevalence in the intermountain inter-mountain country of rabies, which has been conclusively proved recently by the death of numerous farm animals and wild animals, it has been pretty thoroughly settled that many dogs aro also victims of the disease in some form and positively deadly if allowed to go wild. With the hot weather approaching, ap-proaching, unless drastic measures aro taken to rid the city of such worthless pests, it is said a dangerous condition will develop. Death from hydrophobia, according to several Ogden physicians, and notably nota-bly Dr. Gcorgo Dickson, who attended Mr. Chandler, Is one ot the most violent vio-lent known. No treatment has been discovered which will arrest the disease dis-ease after It approaches its last stages. The victim first shows an uncontrollable uncontroll-able aversion to water, going into spasms at times. Ho is unable to swallow and goes through body racking rack-ing contortions as it ( develops. He finally expires after suffering Indescribable Inde-scribable torture and changing virtually vir-tually from a man to a beast. Pasteur Treatment. The Pasteur treatment, according to Dr. Dickson, is tho most efficacious treatment ever discovered for treating hydrophobia. If taken in timo the victims of bites from rabid animals aro in nearly every case saved. The percentage per-centage of deaths from thousands of victims treated In the Pasteur Institute Insti-tute of Paris, and in a noted hospital in New York, ranges as low as one-half one-half of one per cent. There are facilities for giving tho treatment in the local hospital and tho government will pay tho expense in cases of indigency. The treatment covers a period of twenty-one days I and there aro twenty-six hypodermic injections administered during that time. On the contrary if not treated tho disease develops and when It starts in virulent form death occurs in from ono to three days. Very fow victims are said to recover If the diseaso is allowed al-lowed to develop. Born In Salt Lake. Mr. Chandler was born in Salt Lako City about -15 years ago and was married mar-ried in Ogden in 1891, where he has sinco resided with his wife, who, with the children survive him. Besides his wife Mr. Chandler is survived by tho following children, all of Ogden: Ernest Chandler, Mrs. Clara Bell Richardson, Ruby. Nellie and Myrtlo Chandler. He was a mombor of the Woodmen of the? World. Funeral arrangements ar-rangements will be announced later. A number of persons who woro well acquainted with Mr, Chandler havo spokon to him about his having been bitten by the dog on tho 26th ot January, Janu-ary, but he always turned the conversation conver-sation as though tho matter was of little consequence. Cause of Excitement. There was considerable excitement caused by the fact that tho dog that bit Mr. Chandler showed every sign of being mad and escaped capturo for some timo. The police and members of the sanitary department made a search )f the city for tho beast, and in trying to get the right dog they killed about a half dozen stray curs about tho city. Tho dog that bit Mr. Chandler Chand-ler went out of the city and was snapping snap-ping at persons in the vicinity of Roy when it was killed. The head was brought to City Sanitary Inspector George Shorten who sent it to Stato Chemist Herman Harms to havo tho brain analyzed. A report received from tho oflico of the stato chemist showod conclusively that the animal was af- filcted with rabies, and the case was said to be well developed. Mr. Chandler Refused Treatment. The stato officials and tho city offi- , cials both offered Mr. Chandler the Pasteur treatment, but he refused at all times to consider it, seeming to feel that ho would bo exempt from harm. Dog Was Stray Animal. The dog was a stray cur that came into the city from no one knows where. It is estimated that there aro a large number of dogs in the city who are merely stray curs, and it is said further fur-ther that many persons who own dogs are not living up to the law In keeping them muzzled when on the streets. As it is feared that the stray maddog may l, have bitten a number of the dogs in the city as it went on its mad way, and that there is a possibility of an epidemic of rabies breaking out the city officials are determined to clean tho city of the pest of stray dogs and those not kept according to law. , oo |
