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FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON RABIES. 
By W. Worthington, M.R.C.V.S., Wigan. 
In the March and August numbers of the Veterinarian of 
last year several cases of rabies are recorded which had come 
under my notice shortly before. Since the publication of 
those cases, the disease has assumed most alarming proportions 
in this district, more particularly during the last month or two, 
and scarcely a week has passed without three or four animals 
falling victims to the disease. I can enumerate no less than 
forty-two cases which have occurred within a radius of nine 
miles of this town during the last eighteen or twenty months, 
many of which have come under my own notice. 
The list comprises four human beings, one horse, eleven 
cattle, twelve sheep, and fourteen dogs. From the enclosed 
letter, sent by me to the Ormskirk Advertiser , you will 
understand what a vast amount of damage a single dog 
affected with rabies is capable of doing. The animal in 
question, from the Sunday until the time it was killed, on the 
following Tuesday morning, must have rambled over up- 
wards of 150 miles of ground, and I have since ascertained 
that not a single animal with which it came in contact 
escaped its bite. 
I have endeavoured, as much as possible, by the insertion 
of letters and paragraphs in the local papers, to draw atten- 
tion to the prevalence of the disease in this neighbourhood, 
and am happy to say that the local authority, both in the 
borough and county, has at length issued notices ordering 
the confinement of all dogs. 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Ormshirk Advertiser 
Sir, — During the last eighteen months scarcely a week has 
passed without some unfortunate fellow-creature or domesti- 
cated animal falling a victim to hydrophobia in some part of 
Lancashire. At the urgent request of many people I forward 
you the present communication, in the hope that by its pub- 
lication the vigilance of the public maybe roused, and timely 
precautions taken, against the spread of such a terrible dis- 
ease. 
On Monday, the 9th instant, the inhabitants of Sheving- 
ton and Mawdesley were thrown into a state of great alarm 
