Nine school children and two teachers were bitten by a mad dog on January 3, 1911. Sunday Maddolin was the first child to be bitten on her way to school in Union Hill, NJ. Turning from her, the dog, a mongrel, bit Louise Webber, and then ran to West New York, where a class of little girls was leaving the school with their teacher, Miss Mary Cowles. After biting three of the pupils the dog found its way to New Durham, where it attacked another group of children with Miss Mary Rafferty, their teacher. She seized the dog by the throat and held it until she thought her charges were safe. Then the dog tore himself loose, biting Miss Rafferty twice on each hand. After the dog had been killed by a policeman it was found that nine children in all, between six and eight years old had been bitten.
Sunday's wound was but a slight scratch on the hand, but she was taken to the Pasture Institute in New York City where the doctors announced she had escaped the serious effects of rabies. She was taken seriously ill a week before she died and it was immediately determined she had rabies (the newspaper used the term hydrophobia).
Sunday's wound was but a slight scratch on the hand, but she was taken to the Pasture Institute in New York City where the doctors announced she had escaped the serious effects of rabies. She was taken seriously ill a week before she died and it was immediately determined she had rabies (the newspaper used the term hydrophobia).
Nine school children and two teachers were bitten by a mad dog on January 3, 1911. Sunday Maddolin was the first child to be bitten on her way to school in Union Hill, NJ. Turning from her, the dog, a mongrel, bit Louise Webber, and then ran to West New York, where a class of little girls was leaving the school with their teacher, Miss Mary Cowles. After biting three of the pupils the dog found its way to New Durham, where it attacked another group of children with Miss Mary Rafferty, their teacher. She seized the dog by the throat and held it until she thought her charges were safe. Then the dog tore himself loose, biting Miss Rafferty twice on each hand. After the dog had been killed by a policeman it was found that nine children in all, between six and eight years old had been bitten.
Sunday's wound was but a slight scratch on the hand, but she was taken to the Pasture Institute in New York City where the doctors announced she had escaped the serious effects of rabies. She was taken seriously ill a week before she died and it was immediately determined she had rabies (the newspaper used the term hydrophobia).
Sunday's wound was but a slight scratch on the hand, but she was taken to the Pasture Institute in New York City where the doctors announced she had escaped the serious effects of rabies. She was taken seriously ill a week before she died and it was immediately determined she had rabies (the newspaper used the term hydrophobia).
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