ANTHRAX IN AMERICA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9771, 31 July 1924, Page 5

ANTHRAX IN AMERICA

TWENTY PERSONS DEAD

10,000 HEAD OF LIVE STOCK PERISH. NEGROES REFUSE TO ASSIST AUTHORITIES. United Press Association'—Copyright. (Received July 30, 7.15 p.m.) NiEvV YORK, July 29. A telegram from Memphis (Tennessee) states: An epidemic of anthrax is sweeping Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi and lias caused the deaths of twenty persons and an excess of ten thousand head of stock. The local Stock and Federal officers are mobilising all means available to check the scourge. An Anthrax Confere nee iias been called to devise methods to combat the plague and centralise the demands upon Washington ri'V' emergency relic! appropriations. Aho local authorities are faced with further difficulties because the negroes refuse to bury the dead animals, lest they themselves contract tho disease. Special ordinances have been passed requiring dead animals to be burned, together with the waggons to which they were attached. -Meanwhile all persons capable of administering antitoxins to animals have been pressed into service. The authorities state that the disease is spreading from carcases by flies dogs and vultures.— A. and N.Z.C.A.