| Index Entry | Drum, in Edinburg, beat to announce anti-rabies measures |
| Location | Edinburg |
| Citation | AWM.738.022 27 Jul-3 Aug 1738:12 (970) Edinburg, Apr 10. Friday last a complaint was given into the magistrates, that a mad bull bitch, belonging to James Grieg, butcher, had bit many dogs . . . [14 lines, rabies outbreak, magistrates order all dogs killed.] The street cadies &c. went very early into obedience of this edict, for the drum had scarce gone round to intimate the same when they fell a knocking o'the head all suspicious or ill- affected curs, . . . |
| Generic Title | American Weekly Mercury |
| Date | 1738.08.03 |
| Publisher | Bradford, Andrew |
| City, State | Philadelphia, PA |
| Year | 1738 |
| Bibliography | B0001176 |