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NEW YORK PASTEUR INSTITUTE. 
swine plague has been reported which can be said to be free 
from objections. 
The mistaken conception of Salmon’s place in the swine 
plague investigations must be laid to the fact that the publi¬ 
cations, both on swine plague and hog cholera, have his name 
and as such have been quoted in the literature. 
From the present publication of Smith’s, however, which 
could not be seen in reading the reports of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry, it is evident that Salmon was not the discoverer 
of either the hog cholera germ or that of the swine plague, 
so now we know the true condition of things in that regard. 
NEW YORK PASTEUR INSTITUTE. 
FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT—SECOND YEAR. 
Dr. Paul Gibier, Director of the New York Pasteur In¬ 
stitute, begs to report upon the results of the preventive 
inoculations against hydrophobia performed at the Institute 
during the first six months of the second year of its existence 
(February 18th, 1891, to August 18th, 1891). During this time 
four hundred and fifteen persons, having been bitten by dogs, 
cats and other animals, applied for treatment. These patients 
may be divided into two categories: 
1 st. In the case of three hundred and forty-five of these 
persons it was demonstrated that the animals attacking them 
were not mad. Consequently the patients were sent back 
after having their wounds attended to during the proper 
length of time. 
2nd. In seventy cases the anti-hydrophobic treatment 
was applied, hydrophobia of the animals inflicting bites having 
been evidenced clinically, or by inoculation at the laboratory, 
and in many cases by the death of some other persons or an¬ 
imals bitten by the same dogs. 
Indigents have been treated free of charge. 
The persons treated were: 
