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  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  my 
  report 
  to 
  you 
  in 
  tlie 
  matter, 
  I 
  am 
  happy 
  to 
  state 
  that 
  acting 
  

   under 
  yonr 
  instructions, 
  the 
  stock 
  yard 
  authorities 
  have 
  built 
  the 
  

   finest 
  dipping 
  pLant 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  full 
  opera- 
  

   tion 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  of 
  three 
  cents 
  per 
  head. 
  

  

  On 
  March 
  twenty-second, 
  I 
  went 
  to 
  Berkshire, 
  Tinga 
  county, 
  to 
  

   see 
  if 
  the 
  milk 
  from 
  the 
  cows 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  condemned, 
  on 
  ac- 
  

   count 
  of 
  tuberculosis, 
  and 
  owned 
  by 
  George 
  Parsons 
  of 
  that 
  place, 
  

   was 
  not 
  being 
  sold 
  without 
  being 
  sterilized, 
  as 
  he 
  was 
  instructed 
  

   so 
  to 
  do. 
  I 
  was 
  informed 
  that 
  the 
  milk 
  was 
  being 
  sold 
  to 
  a 
  cream- 
  

   ery. 
  I 
  found 
  this 
  to 
  be 
  true, 
  and 
  di-ew 
  ]\[r. 
  Parsons' 
  attention 
  to 
  

   the 
  fact 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  informed 
  l)y 
  Dr. 
  Wm. 
  Henry 
  Kelly 
  

   that 
  he 
  must 
  not 
  sell 
  the 
  milk 
  from 
  the 
  tuberculous 
  cows, 
  mthout 
  

   it 
  being 
  sterilized, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  Department 
  insisted 
  this 
  must 
  be 
  

   done. 
  I 
  visited 
  his 
  herd 
  several 
  times 
  afterward, 
  and 
  up 
  to 
  July 
  

   seventeenth, 
  but 
  always 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  n^ilk 
  was 
  not 
  placed 
  on 
  the 
  

   market 
  without 
  being 
  sterilized. 
  

  

  On 
  August 
  fourth, 
  I 
  was 
  informed 
  by 
  you 
  that 
  rabies 
  existed 
  in 
  

   Erie 
  county, 
  and 
  I 
  was 
  directed 
  by 
  you 
  to 
  go 
  there 
  and 
  keep 
  you 
  

   advised 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  situation. 
  I 
  was 
  informed 
  that 
  probably 
  

   the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  outbreak 
  was 
  May 
  fifteenth. 
  On 
  this 
  date 
  a 
  

   rabid 
  dog 
  appeared 
  at 
  Morton's 
  Corners, 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  pai't 
  of 
  

   the 
  county. 
  He 
  bit 
  several 
  dogs 
  there; 
  some 
  of 
  them, 
  it 
  was 
  said, 
  

   developed 
  rabies 
  and 
  were 
  killed, 
  and 
  another 
  disappeared 
  after 
  

   being 
  bitten. 
  About 
  this 
  time, 
  also, 
  and 
  on 
  jMay 
  fifteenth, 
  in 
  the 
  

   village 
  of 
  Sloan, 
  adjoining 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Buffalo, 
  a 
  rabid 
  dog 
  bit 
  a 
  

   boy 
  named 
  Otto 
  Tresselt, 
  and 
  a 
  man 
  named 
  T. 
  B. 
  Barry. 
  The 
  

   dog 
  was 
  killed, 
  but, 
  about 
  August 
  fourth, 
  young 
  Tresselt 
  devel- 
  

   oped 
  rabies 
  and 
  died 
  on 
  August 
  seventh. 
  Barry 
  was 
  immediately 
  

   sent 
  to 
  the 
  Pasteur 
  Institute, 
  in 
  Xew 
  York, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  too 
  late, 
  and 
  

   he 
  died 
  there 
  in 
  a 
  few 
  days. 
  It 
  also 
  appeared 
  that 
  on 
  July 
  fif- 
  

   teenth 
  a 
  dog, 
  o\\Tied 
  by 
  one 
  Cook, 
  at 
  Alden, 
  be-came 
  rabid 
  and 
  ran 
  

   around 
  a 
  large 
  area 
  of 
  country 
  in 
  the 
  towns 
  of 
  Alden 
  and 
  Lancas- 
  

   ter. 
  He 
  bit 
  four 
  men, 
  several 
  horses 
  and 
  cows, 
  and 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  

   dogs 
  before 
  he 
  was 
  shot. 
  The 
  men 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Pasteur 
  In- 
  

   Btitute 
  and 
  all 
  recovered, 
  but 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  cows 
  and 
  horses 
  died. 
  

  

  