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for so many weeks. The Field says that fourteen and a half 
were in first-rate condition at the Royal Hotel, Ascot Heath, 
yesterday. There was a field of about fifty, including three 
ladies and three of the London division, and a party of the 
Lancer officers from Hounslow. Soon after twelve an utried 
stag was enlarged at f Sir William Hayter’s Corner,’ but 
would not condescend to enter the forest, but went away for 
the Marchioness of Downshire’s, over her ladyship’s farms, 
through part of the park, and thence for Old Bracknell, and 
on to Binfield, where the deer took water near the Stag and 
Hounds, and the day finished after a pleasant hour and a 
quarter, the country riding heavy.” 
It will be remembered that several well-marked cases of 
rabies having shown themselves in quick succession, the 
professional advice went so far as to recommend even the 
destruction of the entire pack should other cases occur, and 
if not, that individual isolation for many months, and cer¬ 
tainly throughout the whole of the usual hunting season, 
should be enforced. We have reason to know that while 
confined to their kennels the hounds gave no indications of 
the disease, and that this fact led to their being again taken 
into work. The risk, however, attending on this act is great, 
far too great for us, who were professionally consulted, to 
take any portion of it. It is right, therefore, that both the 
profession and the public should know that the responsibility 
of the act rests entirely with others, and not with us. 
