ANTHRAX.
SEVERE EPIDEMIC. SWEEPING AMERICAN STATES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 29. A telegram from Memphis, Tennessee, states that an epidemic of anthrax is sweeping Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, and has caused the deaths of twenty persons and in excess of 10,000 head of live stock. The local State and Federal officers are mobilising all the means available to check the scourge. An inter-State anthrax conference has been called to devise methods to combat the plague and centralise demands upon Washington for emergency relief appropriations. The local authorities are faced with further difficulties because the negroes refuse to bury their dead animals lest they themselves should contract. the disease. Special ordinances have been passed requiring dead animals .to. be burned together with the waggons in which they are moved. Meanwhile all persons capable of administering antitoxins to animals have been pressed into service. The authorities state that the disease is spread from earcases by flies, dogs, and vultures.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 July 1924, Page 5
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159ANTHRAX. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 July 1924, Page 5
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