BEWARE OF CATS!
NOW that cases of diphtheria are about, parents should be more than usually careful not to allow their children to fondle cats. It is not only infectious epidemic diseases, such as scarlet fever and diphtheria, which are spread in this way, but an eminent oculist, Mr Arnold Lawson, in a 1 paper recently read before the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine, gave three cases of very serious eye disease caused by infection from cats. Mr Lawson mentioned that lie had brought the cases forward because the general public do not yet realise the great danger of cats as carriers of disease, especially among children. He adds: “The constant habit of licking themselves in which cats indulge (thereby distributing their saliva) has led to the view that they arc eleanlv animals.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1710, 10 May 1917, Page 2
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137BEWARE OF CATS! Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1710, 10 May 1917, Page 2
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