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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In July, a pestilential period affects various animals including hens, geese, dogs, fish, oysters, cattle, cats, and wild pigeons. On the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, wild pigeons suffer from a head disease causing gangrene and death, leading people to avoid eating them. The report suggests a common cause with human diseases.
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In this pestilential period, scarcely a species of animal has escaped a portion of evil. The hens, geese, dogs, fish, oysters, cattle, and cats have been affected: and this summer the wild pigeon is suffering its portion of calamity. On the Delaware and Susquehanna, these fowls are affected by a disease which attacks the head and produces a gangrene or running sore; and the bird dies. This pestilence is so general, that people avoid eating the species. We wish men to be more careful in observing and recording such facts, as they may rely on it that the cause is the same general principle of destruction, which spreads pestilential diseases among the human race.
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Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Delaware And Susquehanna
Event Date
July 26
Outcome
birds die from the disease; people avoid eating the species
Event Details
Various animals including hens, geese, dogs, fish, oysters, cattle, cats, and wild pigeons are affected by diseases in this pestilential period. Wild pigeons on the Delaware and Susquehanna suffer from a head disease producing gangrene or running sore.