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done with certainty with the aid of inoculations into animals. 

 Two fresh places were registered, and two new licenses were 

 granted during 1900, expressly to allow of the necessary 

 experiments being performed in localities where infection was 

 apprehended. 



The number of inoculations for the diagnosis of rabies in 

 dogs has fallen to 81 for the year 1900. 



Returns of experiments have not been received from two 

 licensees, who are on service in South Africa. They are 

 believed not to have performed any experiments, and their 

 names are placed provisionally in Table II. 



The licensee, whose return for 1899 had not been received 

 at the time when last year's report was submitted, has since 

 reported six experiments under license alone. 



During the year the usual inspections of registered places 

 have been made by Sir James Russell and myself, and have 

 been severally reported. We have found the animals every- 

 where suitably lodged and well cared for. In a place where 

 the accommodation for animals was considered defective, 

 registration was withheld. 



I have had to report the following irregularities : — 



1. A licensee holding the certificate dispensing with the use 

 of anaesthetics, performed some inoculations under anaesthetics, 

 allowing the animals to recover therefrom. The animals suffered 

 no pain. This is an irregularity, because the certificate (B) 

 required by the Act when an anaesthetic is used, and the animal 

 allowed to recover therefrom, is different from the certificate 

 (A) required when an experiment is performed entirely with- 

 out anaesthetics. 



2. In another case, a licensee holding the certificate (B), 

 exempting from the obligation to kill the animal before it 

 recovers from the influence of the anaesthetic, reported as 

 being performed under this certificate, seven experiments in 

 which drugs were administered by the mouth and by injection 

 without anaesthetics. It is doubtful whether the administra- 

 tion of these drugs actually caused pain ; but, if so, and the 

 experiments therefore came under the Act, the licensee should 

 have obtained the certificate (A) dispensing with the use of 

 anaesthetics, 



