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Show Forty Dogs Killed in .Anti-Rabid Crusade i More than 40 dogswho have been found running tho streets of Ogden un-, muzzled within the past five days and have been shot by officials or tnc city health department, according to a report mado this morning. Today extra deputies were placed at disposal of the health department to aid in the campaign cam-paign to rid the city 'of animals who, according to the officials, hae occn threatening to spread tho growth of rabies to serious proportions. Tho campaign cam-paign has been ordered by the state health department, after several Ogden Og-den dogs had been found to be afflicted af-flicted with the disease. Hundreds of dog owners of the city have already obtained muzzles for tneir animals, the officials said, but there are many who have not yet abided by tho regulations. Tho animals owned own-ed by these persons are liable to capture cap-ture and death at any moment and owners who desire to keep the dogs should immediately install muzzles, tho officials stated. "Dog owners are -waking to the fact that the campaign is a matter or decided de-cided action rather than talk," said Dr. J. M. Elliott, city sanitary inspector inspec-tor this morning," and we hope they will all realize U. before it is too late. The department does not delight In the wholesale slaughter of good, bad and indifferent animals, but the decree of tho state board of health must be carried out as a' matter of protection of the oltiaens of Ogden." |