No. 4,] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 293 



If a dog suspected of having rabies bites any: dogs or other 

 animals, the animals bitten are to be quarantined by the in- 

 spector of animals, as provided for by law, and the owners 

 must keep them under restraint until notice of their release is 

 sent them by the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



The police or other dog-licensing authorities should be par- 

 ticularly stringent in enforcing the dog license law. All home- 

 less or ownerless dogs should be killed. All persons owning 

 dogs should be made to have them licensed, as provided for by 

 law; and all dog owners should feel a greater sense of respon- 

 sibility at this time than when usual conditions prevail. 



Austin Peters, 



Chief of Cattle Buremi. 



State House, Boston, 

 (Dated) V.m. 



^ Inspector of Animals. 



Town of_ 



A copy of the following circular letter has also been sent 

 to persons having dogs quarantined, and to the local inspect- 

 ors of animals in towns where dogs have l)een placed in 

 quarantine : — 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 

 Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Notice. 



To Dog Owners., or Persons in Cliarge of Dogs quarantined, in 

 Order to prevent the Spread of Rabies. 



All owners or persons having charge of dogs quarantined 

 under the provisions of chapter 00 of the Revised Laws and 

 chapter 116 of the Acts of 1902 are hereby notified that dogs 

 so quarantined are to be kept securely ghahsted, or shut up in 

 a box stall or other suitable enclosure on the premises where 

 they are quarantined ; and that under the provisions of the law 

 they cannot remove or kill any animals legally quarantined, with- 

 out the permission of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



As dogs suspected of having been bitten by a mad dog cannot 

 be safely allowed to run at large until the expiration of ninety 

 days from the time that the hite may have been inflicted., it is 

 possible that some owners may prefer to kill animals, to which 

 they are not particularly attached, or that have but little value. 



