SPREAD OF ANTHRAX.
DEATHS IN AMERICA. (Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, July 29. A telegram from Memphis (Tennessee) states: An epidemic of anthrax is sweeping Arkansas, Tennessee, and' Mississippi, and has caused the deaths of twenty persons and over ten thousand head of stock. The local stock and federal officers are mobilising all means available to check the scourge. An Anthrax Conference has been called to devise methods to combat tile plague and centralise the demands upon Washington for emergency relief appropriations. The local authorities are faced with further difficulties, because the negroes refuse to bury the dead animals, lest they themselves. contract the 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 anti-toxins to animals have been pressed into service. The authorities state that the disease is spreading from carcases by flies, dogs and vultures.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16496, 31 July 1924, Page 5
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