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Show AGONIZING CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA CLAIMS VICTIM OgtU-n Man Dies in Dim' Hospital After Aft-er Night of Terror, Overpow oral mid Put in Irons. Kitten by Dog-Ten Dog-Ten Weeks Ago. Paid No Attention Atten-tion to Slight Wound and Decline-:! Pasteur Treatment Offered by the State. Hydrophobia in its most agonizing agoniz-ing and distressful form claimed a victim at the Dee hospital at Ogdeu when George Chandler, 4ti years old. died Monday morning, March L'Ci, at 10 o'clock. A more striking example of Ihe teiror of rabies has probably never been known. . Before be died Mr. Chandler exhibited all the symptoms long associated with the dread malady, mal-ady, and those who witnessed his death were unnerved. It became necessary nec-essary to overpower the stricken man and put him in irons. George Shorten, Short-en, city sanitary inspector, who witnessed wit-nessed Ihe death throes of Mr. Chandler, says i was the must terrible ter-rible experience "f his ''l0- ' ''v ing man became absolutely insane and possessed an unnatural power. He barked like a dog, growled, whined, whin-ed, snapped and snarled, all the while jfrothing at the mouth and throwing himself about in the pangs of pain. His last audible sound was not human hu-man and he passed out of this life with a last spasmodic contortion. Mr. Chandler was the father of a large family and his wife and children chil-dren survive hint. The home is at. 274; Adams avenue. Mr. Chandler drove a wholesale wagon for Ihe Washington meat market. On January Jan-uary 18, a stray dog bit him on the right hand. The wound was not large and Mr. Chandler paid no particular par-ticular attention to it. He did, however, how-ever, make a complaint to city officials offi-cials against the vicious dog running at large and the animal was captured. The owner could not be found and it was killed. The brain of 'he ilog v pent to the slate bacteriologist. L. L. Dailies, and it was csl a I'l i-lied 1 1: 1 1 the annual bad hydrophobia. Mr. Chandler was notified and Ihe slate, through the sanitary inspector, offered of-fered lo give him frf'c I'asteiir ireal-luenl. ireal-luenl. lie declined, saying be did not think the matter serious enough to warrant it. He kept on with h's work to support his family and did no sttop until last Saturday. The wound from the lime Mr. Chandler was bitten never iim nel entirely and about a week a":o he Miotic cl it gelling worse. Pus forme. I in (I inflammation set in. The swelling swell-ing grew larger and the pain more unheal able. Finally Mr. Chandler became be-came alarmed and began to think of being treated for the rabies. He lr; I decided to lake action when of a sud-den sud-den Saturday evening he was si rick-en rick-en and became convulsive. Help was 'summoned ami be was taken In the hospital. AH nighl his case was watched and its development followed follow-ed until death relieved him Monday. Are we going to let a case like this happen before we are going lo 'iale any action in regards to enforc-'ing enforc-'ing Ihe ordinance requiring .dogs to be properly muzzled ? . There are at present ninny dogs nf large without muzzles and many more with just a SHAM muzzle. Would il not be better to kill till dogs I ha n that one person should suffer suf-fer such a terrible death as Ibis Og-de'n Og-de'n man suffered. ' There should be no favoritism shown, people who will not PKOP-WHLY PKOP-WHLY muzzle their dogn should have them killed. |