530 DOGS USED FOR SPORT. 



drophobia, and quoted in support of the theory of the spontaneous 

 origin of the disease, although they are in no respect infectious. 



" In view of the unfavorable prognosis in hydrophobia, and the 

 complete inefficacy of all the therapeutic agents v^^hen the disease 

 is once establisKed, it naturally follows that in all rational efforts to 

 control the malady prophylactic measures must always form our 

 chief weapons of offense. 



" Of chief importance in this connection are the general pro- 

 phylactic measures to be enforced by the State against hydropho- 

 bia in animals, and we will therefore endeavor to indicate what 

 sanitary regulations are best adapted to confine the spread of this 

 malady within the narrowest possible limits. 



" The first important point to be insisted upon is the reduction 

 of the number of dogs. The comparative danger to be apprehended 

 from hydrophobia diminishes as the total number of dogs becomes 

 reduced, and the most effective method of reducing the number of 

 dogs consists in laying the highest possible tax upon them. This 

 tax should be the same for all dogs, without regard to sex, and any 

 remission of the same should be strictly limited to such dogs as are 

 positively necessary for the performance of certain kinds of work. 



" The State should also provide for a general registration of all 

 dogs. Every dog should be provided with some distinguishing 

 mark ; all stray dogs should be pursued by the police and destroyed. 



"When cases of hydrophobia occur, directions should be issued 

 to cause all dogs to be muzzled for a considerable length of time ; 

 they should either be led by means of a cord, or else kept penned 

 up. The failure to notify the authorities of the existence of a case 

 of hydrophobia should be made a punishable offense. The regula- 

 tions just mentioned ought always to be applicable to as large a 

 district as possible. 



" Rabid dogs should be destroyed, and likewise dogs that have 

 been bitten by them, although no human being may have been 

 bitten. If human beings have been bitten by rabid or suspected 

 dogs, these should be destroyed as soon as the existence of rabies 

 in them has been determined. 



" Dogs suspected of being rabid, and also the dogs bitten by 

 them, should be carefully confined at the owner's expense, ajid in 



