THE CAT PERIL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15128, 24 January 1917, Page 5

THE CAT PERIL.

The Medical Officer of Health for Berwick announces in his report to the authorities that he has' made a series of microscopic investigations into the bacteria infesting the fur of the domestic cat, and he finds that there is hardly a species of disease-spreading bacteria that cannot be isolated from the cat’s : fur, and in epidemics of diphtheria, pneumonia and scarlet fever it should not be forgotten what part the domestic cat might play. Cats are, it is stated, a positive danger, to children especially, and more/dangerous in spreading disease than eVen the house fly. One casd encountered by the, doctor was that of a man in a ipiserable house dying of consumption, and he kept nine cats, all so lean that they were infected; and they were going into neighbouring houses where children were being brought uj^