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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Cheers M, - although at the time I got the impression that this was a much larger outbreak and possibly later and isolated around Accy. It all seems now like a variation on E-Coli, although I doubt if at the time we were eating many of Johnny Dago's dodgy cucumbers or Heinrich Heinz's mean bean sprouts..
The same guy also told me a story about a mad dog rabies attack in Accy sometime in the late 19C - gruesome stuff, with kids having fingers and noses bitten off and ending up in the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Anyone know about that tale?
Apparently the dogs name was Britcliffe.
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The reports on the dog attack appeared in the newspapers in October/November 1894.
PATIENTS FOR THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE>
Six persons, a married woman and five boys bitten by a mad dog left Accrington yesterday for the Pasteur Institute. One of the boys had two fingers bitten off and another had his nose almost severed.
A third had his thigh badly lacerated.
They were sent by public subscription and a Rabies order was put in place in Accrington.
Later newspaper reports say that one of the boys died whilst there and was buried in Paris
No mention of the Dogs Name