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GUY GARBAGE KILLING NOGEpidemic Visits Swii Fed From Public CollectionSEVENTY FIVE DIE AT A SINGLE PACArgument Will Probab Be Used For Another Method of Garbage Disposal.Hogs fed on garbage oollecJ ia the city are said to be dise ed and dying at a rate which m revolutionize the present meth •of a garbage disposal. Hie e demic which has broken out mo •garbage fed hogs within the is lew weeks has already affect hundreds of swine. In most cas the garbage fed to them has be from public collection ia tf city, although same have been f by Lorain collector.The disease puzzles vetriaaii somewhat, but seems to have t charcater of diptheria to a certa extent and leads to the suspici' that the original source of inflt; tion may have been human di theria.The worst conditions are repoi ed from the Freidenstine farm soop 6 1-2 on the green line. He 150 hogs have been affected a: half of them have died, beai removed to the reducing wor north, of town where they are co verted into glue and fertilizer.On the Smith place at stop l there are sixty infected hogs, : haring been fed more or less ' Elyria garbage.One of the arguments that h. been used in tihe past against t! ■present garbage system ia this tov is the fact that garbage which collected publicly often stands tlt; long to be fit for feeding and th the risk of diseased pork is o: of the dangers.
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Elyria Republican
Elyria, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 26, 1908
Page 7
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