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INFECTIVE DISEASES. 



for the nine years previous to 1895, during which Pasteur's method 

 has been in oper4tion : — 



Of the 1,520 persons treated, 156 were bitten on the head or 

 face, 829 upon the hands, and 535 on other parts of the body ; 122 

 were bitten by animals experimentally proved to be rabid, 949 by 

 animals declared by veterinary certificate to be rabid, and 449 by 

 animals supposed to be rabid. 



Bab^s at Bucharest inoculated 300 persons in one year, and 

 claimed to have reduced the mortality to '4 per cent.- 



Stamping-out System. — There is every reason to believe that 

 rabies could be stamped out in England in six months, if a general 

 order for muzzling were enforced, and all ownerless dogs were 

 slaughtered. It is the ownerless cur, the vagrant dog, which is 

 mainly responsible for the spread of rabies ; and if a general muzzling 

 order cannot be put into force, it would undoubtedly check the disease 

 if all dogs were compelled to wear a collar with the name and address 

 of the owner, and all dogs without owners were destroyed. 



LOUPING-ILL. 



Louping-ill is regarded by some as an infective disease. It is 

 a disease of sheep, characterised by symptoms due to an affection of 

 the central nervous system. The symptoms consist in contractions 



