CATS AND DIPHTERIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 162, 6 July 1918, Page 6

CATS AND DIPHTERIA.

(To the Editor.^ Sir.—l Tiave been away yachting in the I>un Mountain district, and consequently have missed reading your publication for the past ten- days. On my return I read the letter over the momker of "Citizen" on the alarmist proposition of cats and diphtheria He pla?es clean cats 'in the category of decent desirables.- Well, lie may be right. You -can get a lot of fun out of a decent cat if you don t allow iit to come to the fi-ratch. Then a- regards the filthy fowl pens about the back doors, [ would suggest that the back doors be ■•emovod to a safety zone, and if iowlfdisseminate the germs of disease, there can't be much harm in eating iht:r errgs. Citizen doesn't aopear to "t'< -< n n the fleas and the flies thait > ome fi\.n, •rmewhere and get nearly everywhere, keeping many aninia'ts and lots of peoole very busv. I think aii d"iiS n. - <*r the age of fifteen years should I,e cremated once a year, and the City Council might make such a pr.ireiiin-e compulsory. ,All dogs kept for siport only

'■•ould 'be exempt from o<t nic r.ioii. "Ciltizen" thinks a decent cat preferable! to i'pts and mice. So it is—n it w , , '| ou.lv get to work, but all c.at J c!on*t. Many decent cats won't get into bad company, and. while, I tiling of :i, pleasa pass the harp and listen • - "Citizen's" scratch on Mail :

Will probably turn many people r,uite pale. His suggestions I've read, Now I can't sleep in bed. Cause T'm almost afraid to inhale. I've a pain in my upper interior. Which has made" me feel weaa-y and wearier. Tt may be a rat That's got under my hat. I don't blame the cajt, It's the fowl andi the rat That carry the gwms of diphtheria. I am,-etc.. tipcat: