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Shirley, Somerville, Stoneham, Sudbury, Tewksbury, Town- 

 send, Tyngsborough, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Way- 

 land, Westford, Weston, Wilmington, Winchester. 



Nantucket County: Nantucket. (One dog taken from 

 Vineyard Haven; did no damage.) 



Norfolk County: Bellingham, Braintree, Brookline, Can- 

 ton, Dedham, Hyde Park, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Milton, 

 Needham, Norwood, Plainville, Quincy, Sharon, Stoughton, 

 Walpole, Wellesley, Westwood, Weymouth, Wrentham. 



Plymouth County: Abington, Bridgewater, Brockton, 

 Duxbury, Hull, Kingston, Plymouth, Whitman. 



Suffolk County: Boston (cases reported by courtesy of 

 veterinarian of Boston Board of Health), Revere, Winthrop. 



Worcester County: Clinton, Douglas, Fitchburg, Hope- 

 dale, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Mendon, Milford, 

 llillbury, Northborough, Northbridge, North Brookfield, 

 Oxford, Rutland, Southborough, Southbridge, Sutton, Upton, 

 Webster, Westborough, Westminster. 



Early in the year rabies was so prevalent in many locali- 

 ties that a number of cities and towns issued orders requiring 

 that all dogs within their respective limits should be properly 

 and securely muzzled or restrained from running at large for 

 periods varying from three to six months. In order to have 

 these orders do the greatest possible amount of good, it seemed 

 desirable that there should be a certain amount of co-opera- 

 tion among neighboring cities and towns, so that the same 

 regulations might apply to a considerable area of contiguous 

 territory. To accomplish this, the following order was ap- 

 proved in Council Jan. 2, 1907: — 



Cattle Bureau Order No. 14. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



State House, Boston, Dec. 29, 190G. 



To All Persons whom it may concern. 



By virtue of the power and authority vested by law in the Cattle 

 Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, under the provisions of 

 chapter 90 of the Revised Laws and chapter 116 of the Acts of 

 1902, you are hereby notified that rabies, which is a contagious dis- 



