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1909: The Hogs That Were Hunted by the Health Squad on Brooklyn’s Barren Island

Posted: 10th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Pigs and Hogs
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No one knows where the hogs came from or when they first took up residence on Barren Island in Jamaica Bay. But according to an estimate by Dr. Walter Bensel, City Sanitary Superintendent, there were close to 1,000 hogs on Barren Island in 1909. That was about 999 too many.