DOG DRINKS AT FOUNTAIN
PROSECUTION OF OWNER. A summons against a woman for allowing her terrier to drink from a fountain cup in St. James' Park, London, so that pollution of the drinking water would be likely, was dismissed by Mr. Drummett, at Bow Streer, recently. The woman, Mrs. Bertha Roberts, of Long Acre, did not appear. ' Mr. C. R. V. Wallace, prosecuting, said that the only quesdon was whether water afterward poured into the cup would be polluted. Apart from rabies, which h'ad been stamped out in this country, he knew of only one rare disease which could pos'sibly result to a human being from drinking from the same vessel as a dog. Mr. Hamilton Kirk, a veucrmary su-geon, said that pollutio.r was h'gh- I ly i.nlikeiy, so much so that be w uld give his cwr dog a drink uut of a cup. ".Ie vnfid have much' m to fear from the numan mou,'h than frocu a dog's. Mr. Drummett said that he sincerely hoped this practice would not be continued. Although Mr. Kirk 'thought he would rather drink from a cup after a dog than after a hUman being, there were ia large number of people who did not feel like that. , |
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 666, 19 October 1933, Page 7
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