WASTE OF KEEPING CATS
A statement made T>y lace that "there are extremely important hygienic reasons why the canine population of ' this country should . bo materially and' permanently reduced, applies (says Mr James Buckland in The Times)' -with equal truth to the felire population. I have, not the figures for last year,' but in. 1914 no fewer: than, 2,044 stray cats, many of. which >were diseased "were received in one.„ London cats' shelter alone. The existence in the towns of . this country of these wranaerdrig hordes of carriers of disease g&rms As a public menace. _ Small v wondfer that so many infantile complaints are epidemic. - , , - . Another correspondent . remarks:— There must besomethlrig- like 15 million cats in the country. "VVJiat. the amount of milk i?er tfiem consumed toy. them: Allowing a cjuarter: ;of - a, .pint for each, l some three and a-half million pints, and only recently-it was k announced in Hie papers that niilk Avould he scarce _ this summer, .arid the price again, higher. Gats should certainly be. taxed on the same principle ,'"ks Pirof'essor Wallace suggests Hog taxes. I. oncb lnvecl m a house where my neighbour (a lady| kept 12 cats.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 27 May 1916, Page 5
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