42 On the Prevention and Cure of Hydrophobia. 
much improving that approach to the’ 
Bedford eftate. : shat 
Of the importance of the buildings on’ 
the Bedford and Foundling eftates to the 
éountry and the proprietors, fome judg- 
ment may be formed by the following 
eftimates, which are very nearly correét : 
The duties already paid to government 
for the articles coufumed in the builds 
ings, amount to 84,500], The houfe and 
window duties per annum, 40,7001. The 
war tax on property, per annuim, 14,800). 
The new river company gain by the in- 
creafed-fervice, per annum, 3,4501. The 
prefent value of the buildings ereéted is 
4,$28,0001. The annual value, 125,710. 
And the prefént annual value of the 
eround-rents, 18,8391. | 
~ Ttis prefumed, that about one half the 
buildings are completed on the Bedford 
efiate, and two’ thirds-on the Foundling 
eftate. If, therefore, thofe proportions 
be added to the fums already efiimated, 
fome idea may be formed of the rever- 
fionary value to the proprietors; and if 
to thefe be added the duties and taxes on 
the other eftates before mentioned fouth 
ef the new road, the permanent. taxes 
to the fate cannot be lefs (according to 
their prefent ratio) than, for-houfes and 
wiiidows per atinum, 100,0001.; for duties 
‘and’ cuftoms on? the building articles, 
200,0001.; for the’ war-tax on’ property 
per annum, '40,0001.; and in total of the 
‘capital thus to be created, not lefs than 
‘3,500,0001. ; exctufive of all confideration 
of the advantages derived to the reve- 
‘nue, manufactures, and commerce, by 
the fitting up and furnifhing fo vaft a 
jieighbourhood. TE, 
December 1806. © bf 3 
— a fiom 
‘Tothe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, , qs 
T: many of the’ London papers, ‘and 
in fome’-of the provincial, a corre- 
‘fpondent lately intimated, that feveral 
-perfons had, afew days’before: his‘com- 
munication, faffered from the bite ofa 
amad’dog, and mentions a fatal infiance. 
‘Tvacing the progrefs of one of thefe 
vabid-dovs afterwards into the country, 
he enumerates the feveral animals, and 
éven fomé of the human fpecies, lately 
bitten in its flight from village to vil- 
lace. rh Lae 
This writer very laudably cautions tke 
public againft carelefS indifferenee,. by 
imprudently ‘delaying to obviate danger 
till hydrophobia appears in fome of thefe 
animals. In ‘all this, his’ admonitions 
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‘longer. 
-nions. 
[Feb. ty 
and humanity claim our praife, but the 
means recommended are exceptiona- 
bie. . . Matty 
To deftroy (as he advifes) every dog 
fufpeéted of being bitten, would indeed 
fully anfwer the purpofe of fecurity ; but 
equal faiety may ‘be obtained, without 
the lo{3 of many of thefe- valuable ani- 
mals. -Is it not. unjuft to involve) the 
hannlefs and noxious ini the fame ruin, 
when it isin our power to diferiminate ? 
—inay we not transfer the fame mode of 
reafoning, with propriety, to the »unbit+ 
ten, but fufpected, and the bitten dogs ? 
In the prefent cafe: nothing.is more ob= 
vious, nothing more: eafy than this dif- 
erimination. It confitis imply im, tying 
them up + the infected. will joon be dil- 
tinguifhable. Oat x Maio 3 
I would. take the: liberty to vefer:your 
readers to my Treatife.on Hydrophobia, 
vol. ip. 222-5, fecond edition, -where 
fufticient faéts are recorded to eftablith 
the inference,..and mark with fome pre- 
eifidn the interval: between the bite and 
the commencement of the difeafe in 'the 
dog tribe.» It) wall be found, from the 
examples ‘there adduced, that thirty days 
is its longett period ;though it. often does 
not exceed the half. Let'the calculation, 
therefore, begin from the time the rabid 
-dog-appeared in the place, and the length 
-of the confinement will be apparent. 
To remove all uncertainty, however, the 
dog may be-kept onthe chain a week 
This inconvenience cannot ‘be 
thought great. ,.Food and! water muft be 
daily fupplied ; and the perfon employed 
to feed them fhould always approach with 
-caution, pufhing, the yiétuals: towards 
them with fome fuitable inftrument, to 
avoid coming too near. ary 
By this advice I have faved feveral. 
condemned , dogs,,:-which were. ufeful) to 
their mailers for years afterwards ; and 
have detected’ early difeafe in others, by 
-which dreadful effects, doubtlefs, had the 
animals been. at large, were prevented, as 
feveral of your readers can teitify. 
I:prefiume it to-be altogether unne- 
eeflary here to repeat, that In a very 
early. ftage: af hydrophabia dogs are ca- 
-pable’. of ‘coriimunieating the diteafe. 
They» will eat, drink,;antwer the. call, 
fawn .on their matters, and.faffer them- 
felves to be handled, as in perfect health, 
when. they. are’ moft dangerous compar 
This arifes from the intervals 
between: thefe fits,, which characterize 
the complaint in the firft days of its, at- 
tack. During the’ paroxyfms, only, they 
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