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INFECTIVE DISEASES. 



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

 has been in operation : — 



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 veteiinary certificate to be rabid, and 449 by 

 animals supposed to be rabid. 



Babfes 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 



