RABIES 85 



Or take the figures from the Pasteur Institute at 

 Tunis. This Institute has had, altogether, 4,568 

 complete cases, with only 16 deaths = 0*35 per 

 cent. In 1912, it had 367 completed cases, with 

 2 deaths. (Archives de tlnstitut Pasteur de 

 Tunis, 1913, p. 136.) 



Of late years, the establishment of Anti-rabic In- 

 stitutes far and wide has greatly reduced the number 

 of patients at the Paris Institute. The recent 

 figures from the Paris Institute are as follows : In 

 1910, 401 cases, death : in 1911, 343 cases, 

 1 death : in 1912, 395 cases, death. The number 

 of cases in class A, in these three years, was 147. 



In England, in 1886, the Government appointed 

 a Committee to inquire into Pasteur's method. It 

 reported favourably : and, after a Mansion House 

 Meeting on July 1, 1889, Sir James Whitehead pre- 

 siding, a thank-offering of 40,000 francs was sent to 

 the Pasteur Institute. We have to note, that the 

 passing of the Muzzling Act, and the consequent 

 stamping out of rabies in this island, were largely 

 due to Pasteur's influence.* But what Act could 



* " The freedom of England from rabies I take to be one 

 of the great achievements of modern science : and we owe it 

 entirely to M. Pasteur. ... I had the honour of acting as 

 secretary of a Committee that was appointed by the Govern- 

 ment to inquire into M. Pasteur's treatment ; and, when the 

 Committee was in Paris, M. Pasteur said to us, ' Why do 

 you come here to study my method ? . . . You do not 

 require it in England at all. I have proved that this is an 



