tions twenty-one persons as having been bitten by a mad dog, of 

 whom only one suffered. During the Stockhohn epidemic 106 

 persons were bitten, and of all these only one, who neglected his 

 wounds, contracted hydrophobia. Zoualt, the celebrated veterinary 

 surgeon, has been himself five times bitten by mad dogs, and has 

 cauterised the wounds of 400 people who were bitten, without a 

 single bad result. And I could cite many such examples, proving 

 how very small a percentage of those bitten suffer any serious mis- 

 chief. In 1870 there died in England of hydrophobia 60 persons ; 

 in 1874, 61 ; in 1876, 73 ; in 1877, 82 ; in the other years between 

 1870and 1883 there died on an average about 40 persons each year, 

 which is only two or three per million. This is a very small per- 

 centage, but when we remember the fearful and hopeless suffering 

 entailed by the disease, there is no question that as it can so it ought 

 to be prevented. So hopeless is it that formerly sufferers were in 

 England smothered between two feather beds, and only the other 

 day I heard of a man being treated for the complaint in France by 

 having his jugular vein opened, which was of course equivalent to 

 bleeding him to death. One obvious and easy precaution should at 

 once be at once taken — no ownerless dogs should be allowed to 

 wander about the streets. Each dog should be compelled to wear 

 a collar with its owner's name and address on it. The owner of any 

 rabid or savage dog should be made legally responsible for any 

 damage he may do. This would make people careful. All dogs 

 straying without collars should be destroyed. Any dog bitten by 

 any other dog, rabid or not, should be inoculated. Every dog, for 

 a periud of six months from a given date, should be either muzzled, 

 tied up, or led by a string, or otherwise be -rendered impotent to bite 

 another dog or man. All this should be made compulsory and 

 penal. Foolish ladies are largely responsible for fostering hydro- 

 phobia by injudicious overfeeding of pet dogs and by not affording 

 them proper opportunities for exercise, &c. It does not apparently 

 strike these amiable, over-indulgent ladies that their supposed kind- 

 ness is really great cruelty to their unfortunate pets, and a great 

 possible wrong to society at large. 



A short discussion followed, in the course of which Mr. Hussey 

 cited a case which had come under his notice, in which a perfectly 

 healthy dog had conveyed hydrophobia. Colonel Rotton said he 

 had met classes of hydrophobia in pariah dogs in India, but he 

 admitted it was rare. 



In reply to questions. Dr. Tyson said rabies might be conveyed 

 by horses, but he had never heard of its being communicated by a 

 human being. They had no knowledge as to the origin of the 

 disease, any more than they had of the origin of smallpox, scarlet 

 fever, measles, and other diseases. He suggested that dog licenses 



