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RABIES IN DOGS. 



Another quotation relative to this Board's efforts at preventing 

 the introckiction of rabies or hydrophobia into the Territory with 

 dogs coming from the mainland of the United States and from 

 countries where this disease is known to exist would seem to be 

 of sufficient interest to repeat here. It is taken from the May, 

 1915, issue of the A'eterinary Record, London, England, and 

 reads as follows : 



"Most of us can remember the outcry that dog owners raised 

 against the Board of Agriculture policy of quarantining imported 

 dogs. The wisdom of that policy has been evident for a long 

 time, and has recently been strikingly exemplified. We have 

 just had the first case of canine rabies in the Kingdom since 1902 ; 

 and it occurred in a dog in quarantine, and therefore unable to 

 affect others. There is no gainsaying the moral of these two 

 facts — the long inmiunity, and the one case occurring in the 

 security of quarantine. Our present quarantine secures us from 

 rabies. But if we relax it, the importation of dogs will greatly 

 increase, and the prevalence of rabies in many other parts of the 

 world would soon cause its re-introduction here." 



Respectfully submitted, 



Victor A. Norgaard, 

 Territorial \''eterinarian. 



report for may. 



Honolulu, ^lay 31, 1915. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to report on the work of the Division of 

 Animal Industry for the month ending May 31st as follows: 



HOG cholera. 



On Saturday, May the 8th, this office was notified that a disease 

 supposed to be hog cholera had appeared among the swine on the 

 ranch belonging to Mr. Charles Bellina at Kuliouou, about eight 

 miles from Honolulu on the road to Koko Head. The place was 

 visited immediately and the diagnosis confirmed by post-mortem 

 examination of a number of dead hogs. Vaccination with anti- 

 hog cholera serum had already been begun, but as the disease ap- 

 peared to be of a most unusually virulent nature and as the loca- 

 tion was favorable for the purpose, it was recommended that the 

 treatment of the hogs be placed in the hands of this Board, the 



