Almost a Modern Noah

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1948, Page 5

Almost a Modern Noah

Reeeived Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, May 5. The British public are great animal iovers, a faet which popular national newspapers rarely allow tliem to forget. They are also, at the monxent by f orce of circumstanees, great house lxunters. It was "inevitable then, that when a woman in South Kensington, who' lived alone antl kept 60 animals and birds in a twenty-roomed house, was sunxnxoxxed, that the event should "xnake news". I She Was the .Hon. Mrs. McLareix Morrison, da.txghter of the late Lord Pirbright, and it was alleged that She kept. the animals and, birds in such a state " as to eause serious infestation and nuisance, ' ' A 'sanitary-'ihspector *said * tlxat the ahixxxal population in the house was 2-5 birds, ineludiiig doves,,. coclcatoos, a blaclcbird and' an owl, 16 eats, 8 dogs and 13 hamsters whieli is a type of guinea^pig. There- was also one- jnouse in e bxrd cage. Counsel for Mrs. Morrison said his client had been ill, but when it was sxig-„ gested she .should get Hd of the birds and animals, she replied: ' * They are all I have lived for. If you take them ' E'll die." The BenGh granted an order. for proiibition in 14 days. A