THE CAT PERIL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 March 1917, Page 3

THE CAT PERIL.

MEDICAL WARNING.

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 diptheria pneumonia, and scarlet fever it should not be forgotten what part the domestic cat may play. Cats are, it is stated, a positive danger to children especially, and more dangerous in spreading disease than even the house fly. One case .encountered by the doctor was that of a man in a miserable house dying of consumption, and he kept nine cats, al 1 so lean that they were infected; and they were going into neighbouring houses where children were being brought up.