Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-10-10 | Page 8 | Rabies Causes the Death of Boy at Layton

RABIES CAUSES THEj : DEATH QF BOY AT LAYTOrj SALT LAKE, Oct. 10, With the death fron rabies of Phil Jacques. 8 years of age. of Iayton. at n local hospital yesterday, yes-terday, there oecurred the first case or the falluit? of the Pasteur treatment to prevent the development of a case of this kind in I'toh. More than eighty cases were treated during the prevalence preval-ence of attacks of the malady in Ctih two ears a;o through the co-operatlo.i of the United States .government and the state board of health. Dr T. B. nentt secretary or the state board of heulth gave the treatments and not one was lost. Ono Ogden man, however, how-ever, who refused to take the treatment BUj ( limbed following the bite of a rabid animal What makes the death of the Layton child peculiar Is that the case, according accord-ing to the ftverogr. is one In 200, according accord-ing to medical reeords. The boy was bitten by a rabid animal June 27. H was a stray doc. It was killed and tho brain sent to th state board of health, where positive Indications of the disease wen- noted under examination. The treatment, it Is explained. Is preventer and not a cure. II la stated that BORIC animals have died recently of the rabies in scattered localities In t'tah and that persons should beware of suspiciously aetin ! si range dogs According to physician.;, the ravages of the disease would haw been much greater but for the concerted concert-ed ariion of the federal and state authorities author-ities in killing off coyotes which transmitted trans-mitted the disease by biting other wild and domestic animals