Butts County GaArchives News.....Charlie Andrews October 18 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 February 3, 2005, 9:02 pm Jackson Argus – Week of October 18, 1895 Last Sunday noon while the family of Mr. Elmer Andrews were at dinner a small dog of his went mad and bit his little son, Charlie, on the cheek, making a very severe and ugly wound. A few minutes afterward the dog began foaming at the mouth and otherwise showed signs of rabies and Mr. Andrews killed it. Mr. Andrews has secured mad stone and applied it to the wound place on his son’s cheek, but it failed to adhere, and he is so greatly troubled about the child’s safety that he left for New York Tuesday night, where he goes to put him under the care of physicians who will apply the Pasteur treatment and endeavor to counteract the poison in his system. The child’s cheek is terribly swollen and small festered places have begun to appear near the place where he was bitten. Every day since the sad occurrence the wound has pained the child terribly and it continues to swell until now the whole side of his face presents a hideous appearance. This makes the fourth person that has been bitten by a mad dog in Butts county within the past six years, and two of the other cases resulted in death to the unfortunate children. We trust that the treatment this child receives in New York may have a tendency to save his life and we recommend and heartily favor the enforcement of a law that will have every dog in the state killed, in order to prevent another such unfortunate occurrence. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/gnw540charliea.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb