290 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



It will be seen by the above table that 57 cases of rabies 

 have been reported through various sources as original 

 cases ; in addition, 41 dogs have become rabid after being 

 quarantined on suspicion of having been bitten by mad dogs, 

 making 98 actual cases among dogs ; besides these, there 

 must undoubtedly have been a number of canines which 

 developed the disease and died or were killed, of which no 

 report was received at the Cattle Bureau office. Fifty-three 

 dogs have been killed with the owners' consent, who })re- 

 ferred to have them destroyed rather than run any risk, or 

 have the troul^le of keeping them in (juarantine for ninety 

 days. 



Ninety-five dogs have been kept in <]uarantine for ninety 

 days and released at the end of that period as free from in- 

 fection, among which should be included one dog which 

 ran away from home after being in quarantine about sixt}- 

 four days. The latter animal the owner reports did not act 

 peculiarly, and probably ran away in disgust at being ke})t 

 shut up so long. Thirty-one dogs are still held in ({uaran- 

 tine, making 278 dogs in all that have been dealt with. 



In addition to the dogs, there have been 5 cases amom? 

 cattle, — 2 in Upton, 2 in Grafton and 1 in Marlborough. 

 A cow and calf supposed to have been bitten have been re- 

 leased in Westborough at the expiration of ninety days, and 

 there still remains in quarantine a cow in Marlborough. 

 A })ig died of rabies in Grafton, as the result of the bite of 

 a mad dog ; and another pig was killed in Dracut because it 

 was bitten, and the owner did not care to take any chances 

 Avith it. 



Two horses are in quarantine in Weymouth because of 

 being recently bitten on their noses by a rabid dog, which 

 had taken it into his head to guard a i)ubhc watering trough, 

 and snapped at every horse that ai)i)roached it to drink ; 

 making a total of nearly 300 cases which have been dealt 

 Avith, not to mention numerous hens and ducks that have 

 been killed by mad dogs. 



A number of people have also been bitten, — in Clinton, 

 Marlborough, Ilolden, Westborough, Upton, Hopkinton, 

 Grafton, Mount Washington, Leominster and Lowell. Some 



