TERRIBLE CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1670, 8 December 1887, Page 4

TERRIBLE CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.

Another death from hydrophobia has occurred under shocking circumstances in Oddessa. The deceased patient, writes a correspondent, was in a bed of the ward specially set apart for these cases, and under the charge of a sister of the Red Cross. He bad displayed none of the usual premonitory spasmodic symptoms. Suddenly as the sister passed down the ward, he sprang out of bed, and endeavored to seize her. She fled downstairs into the hospital yard, calling for assistance, and was followed by the patient, who succeeding in seizing her by the arm] and biting her in the band. Pour male attendan’s came to her assistance, and attempted to hold the unfortunate man on the ground and bind him, but his strength was so great that he threw them off, snapping at them as he did so, and escaped into the street. He was finally captured there by throwing a lasso round his neck, dragged back to the hospital, and securely bound. The unfortunate man died zoon afterwards, raving in a horrible manner. This incident has caused so much excitement and apprehension that the. local press urge that those patients now lodged in the overcrowded Bacteriological Hospital, and who traverse the streets twice a day for the inoculations, .-.lionid have a police escort. The Sister of the Red Cross is now under the usual treatment as if bitten by a rabid dog.