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NATURE AND TREATMENT OF RABIES. 
state, yet that perhaps 999 in 1000 cases are due to contagion 
alone, and that, therefore, the destruction of the contagious 
source or sources is of primary importance; also that rabies 
is not peculiar to any season, but may and does appear at all 
times of the year in a sporadic or epizootic form. These 
measures in the general interest of the community should be 
adopted and rigorously enforced, and owners of dogs and 
other domestic animals should be compelled to attend to 
them. 
Hygienic Treatment of Logs. 
No amount of reasonable care can be considered superfluous 
to preserve the health of domesticated animals, and to pro¬ 
tect them from disease and its results. Hence the hygiene 
of the dog is so important. 
Animals should be provided with wholesome food, solid 
and liquid, and cleanliness cannot be too strictly enforced, 
their kennels should be provided with fresh straw, fine 
shavings, or sawdust, and their supply of w T ater should be 
unlimited. 
Dogs should not be needlessly excited, abused, or mal¬ 
treated. If it should happen that an excited dog bites 
anyone, the person who excited it should be held guilty of a 
legal offence. This is in accordance with the Austrian law 
and the jurisprudence of our ancestors in this country— 
the Celts. 
Dogs should be allowed exercise, and nothing can be more 
reprehensible than keeping them confined to houses for 
days together, or chaining them for weeks or months to a 
kennel. It is quite opposed to the animal's natural instincts. 
All quarrelsome and vicious dogs should be particularly taken 
care of by their owners, and neglect of precautions should 
bring the offender within the penal code. This is also in 
accordance with French law. 
Diminish the Number of Useless Logs. 
In an economical point of view the diminution of the num¬ 
ber of useless dogs is most desirable, and from a sanitary 
point of view is even more essential. Useless dogs are badly 
kept by poor people, and are allowed to run about dirty 
and diseased. They are a source of waste and insalubrity, 
as they absorb the already insufficient supply of oxygen in 
the miserable and badly-ventilated dwellings of their owners, 
and they consume a certain quantity of food that can ill 
be spared. Pleasure dogs kept by the richer classes are 
scarcely less a source of danger and extravagance, for they 
