DANGERS FROM PETS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 18

DANGERS FROM PETS

WOMEN WHO KISB DOGS.

Women in England have been discussing the comment of the Hammersmith Coroner, Mr. H. R. Oswald, on what he described as the "distracting habit of kissing Fnn, T" The remark W" mad« at "" inquest on a woman who contracted trench mouth" (a form of pyorrhea) after being bitten in the mouth, by her Pekingese. Most medical men and veterinary surgeons agree that kissing pet does IB dangerous.' . "H° One o| the foremost veterinary Burgeons m London said that 70 per cent., and perhaps 80 per cent., of the pet dogs in Jjondon suffered from pyorrhea. He add ed: . Kissing dogs, even pet dogi, is not ? h .°f cc »»Wt, for dog, UVk all* sorts o things, and most animals which are pet ted sooner or later contract pyorrhea. \ person whose mouth has been' scratched ™ y.ho ,kls6es a dog with pyorrhea, in Mr % tU% Ot ,c, atching the disease." n -r?V J# SewelI > of Kensington, a specialist *m the diseases of dogi, said y Two years ago I was bitten in the hand ♦ *i? Pck ] InSese which had very dirty badl "a had blood -Poisowng very Another doctor said: "It -ig ' a question whether a great number of the dis i eases from which we suffer are not caused and spread by the growing" habit of keeping domestic pets.» • K\"* OJ' OI The attitude of some people toward their pets is aptly illugtrated 6y a recent newspaper advertisement, which referred she month's ttol Cd U!ldleii» me ***.*»«