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infested with. Heas aud that their tender skin and dense woolly coat 

 of hair make it risky to apply disinfectants or insecticides which will 

 kill the parasites withont injury to the host, it will readily be seen 

 that, in order to avoid the continued complaints of the owner of such 

 dogs, and, on the other hand, to protect the bona fide importers of dogs 

 held in quarantine, it will be necessary to amend the present dog im- 

 portation regulations so as to insure that only healthy dogs are admitted 

 to the Territory — or to quarantine — or at least dogs which juay be 

 reasonably counted on to possess sufficient stamina for acclimatization 

 during the period of confinement. To meet this requirement, it is rec- 

 ommended that all dogs coming from foreign countries, and which are 

 intended to remain here, shall be accompanied by a certificate of health 

 issued or approved by the proper live stock official of the country of 

 origin, or at the port of embarkation, showing that such dogs have been 

 vaccinated against distemper and have been submitted to an approved 

 course of worm treatment aud disinfecting baths, immediately before 

 shipment. The same shall apply to pups and young dogs coming from 

 the United States and Canada^ unless they are the bona fide property 

 of temporary visitors or tourists. 



In case of arrival of such dogs without such certificate of health, the 

 owner shall, when so required^ provide competent veterinary attendance 

 for the period necessary for the destruction or removal of internal and 

 external parasites and for the treatment of any case of distemper which 

 might develop before vaccination has been applied and become effective. 

 Vaccination for distemper requires three hypodermic injections at in- 

 tervals of two to five days and frequently is accompanied by severe 

 malaise. The treatment for intestinal worms also may require repeated 

 treatments and cannot be undertaken sijnultaneously with vaccination, 

 on account of its debilitating effect. If badly infested with fleas, lice 

 or ticks a single bath does not suffice and should, especailly in the case 

 of young dogs or pups, always be undertaken with care. When to 

 this is added vaccination for rabies, which requires six inoculations on 

 six consecutive days and which undoubtedly will have to be applied 

 to a majority of all incoming dogs as soon as it has been proven effec- 

 tive and safe, it will be seen that, unless part of these various treat- 

 ments are undertaken before the dogs arrive here, the vaccination for 

 rabies will have to be postponed for such length of time as these treat- 

 ments may require, and the length of the quarantine period equally 

 extended. 



Under normal circumstances, that is, when dealing with healthy dogs 

 that have either acquired immunity to or been vaccinated against dis- 

 temper, and that are not infested with parasites or vermin to such an 

 extent as to require immediate treatment, the rabies vaccination may be 

 applied within a few days after arrival and the quarantine period re- 

 duced from 120 days to approximately 4.5 days. 



The Antirabic Treatment or Vaccination of dogs, which have been 

 exposed to rabies infection, is known as the Hogycs Dilution Method 

 and differs from the Pasteur treatment in that it employs unattenuated 

 but much diluted rabies virus, and requires only six injections as com- 

 pared to Pasteur 's twenty-one to twenty-five injections. The six in- 

 jections are administered hypodermically on six consecutive days and 

 cause little or no inconvenience to the patient. It has been used during 

 the past few years wdth signal success on thousands of animals bitten 

 by rabid wolves and dogs in the United States. 



Nearly two years ago when our attention was first called to this 

 vaccine efforts were made to obtain it for use here as a substitute for 

 the prolonged quarantine. The material, however, deteriorates very 

 rapidly, that is, it loses its effectiveness in from four to six days unless 

 kept at a very low temjiefature. As the vaccine, at that time, was 

 made only in New York, from whence shipment to Hawaii w^ould require 

 two to three weeks, the manufacturers advised against using it here, 



