MYOPIA HOUNDS DESTROYED 
Outbreak of Rabies in the Kennels Necessi- 
tated Blotting Out of Whole Pack. 
Because of an outbreak of rabies in the 
kennels of the Myopia Hunt club at 
Hamilton last week it was deemed nec- 
essary to destroy the whole pack of fox- 
hounds, ‘and Thursday week fifty-two 
hounds and twenty-six puppies were 
shot. The cause of the outbreak is un- 
known, and how the first hound became 
infected with the disease cannot be de- 
termined. : 
Such a calamity is rare, although all 
kennels here and abroad are often swept 
with violent outbreaks of distemper and 
less dangerous diseases. Once in a 
oreat while, however, the great English 
hunts are visited with the disease, and it 
is always met promptly by the destruc- 
tion of the whole pack. 
Recently two or three of the New 
York hounds became sick and the 
symptoms alarmed the kennel men. 
When one of the animals died the body 
was sent to Dr. Langdon Frothingham, 
instructor in bacteriology at the Harvard 
medical school, and he pronounced it a 
case of rabies. Ata meeting of the exe- 
cutive committee it was decided, upon 
advice of the club’s veterinarian, Dr. J. 
J. Riordan of Beverly Farms, to have 
the whole pack destroyed. ‘This was 
done and steps have been taken to have 
a complete disinfection of the kennels. 
The Myopia pack was originally im- 
ported from England and came of fam- 
ous stock. For years the runs of 
Myopia hunt club on the trail of the 
anise seed or perchance the real fox have 
been famous and the hounds have lead 
the hunters over hill and dale all over 
Essex county. George S. Mandell of the 
Beverly Cove summer colony is the M. 
F. H. of the Myopia club and plans will 
be made at once to import another pack 
so that the plans for fall hunting will not 
be disarranged. 
* Rabies and its Increasing Prevalence " 
Subject of Article by George H. Hart. 
A pamphlet issued by the U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture on “* Rabies and 
its Increasing Prevaience’’ is so full of 
interest that we venture to quote from it. 
The article is by George H. Hart, V. 
M. D., and on page 8, under “‘ Popular 
Fallacies Concerning the Disease’’ he 
says: 
““In the category of infectious dis- 
eases rabies stands at the head of those 
about which the ideas of the general pub- 
lic are most at variance with the actual 
facts. It is commonly believed that a 
person bitten by a dog in perfect health 
is liable to become affected with hydro- 
phobia should the dog develop rabies at 
any subsequent period, however long af- 
terwards. Consequently believers in this 
theory are particularly anxious to have 
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the dog killed at once before he has had 
an opportunity to go mad. Nothing 
could be more fallacious and at variance 
with our knowledge of all infectious — dis- 
eases, and the killing of the dog should 
always be discouraged. 
“Until recently it was considered that 
the dog’s saliva became virulent only 
three days before the appearance of 
symptoms of rabies. According to some 
recent experiments by Nicolas it has been 
found that the saliva may become viru- 
lent six or even eight days before the 
symptons develop. ‘Therefore in case 
the animal remains healthy for ten days 
after it has bitten the person or animal, 
no danger need be apprehended from 
that bite even though the dog develop 
rabies within the next few weeks. 
““On page 15 under “‘ Proper Dis- 
posal of Dogs after Biting Persons,’’ he 
says: 
““In many cases in which a person is 
bitten by a dog there is immediately a 
great popular clamor to have the animal 
at once destroyed. This should always 
be discouraged. ‘The mere fact that a 
dog inflicts a bite on a human being does 
not by any means prove that he has 
rabies. ‘This is the dog’s only means of 
defense and he bites instinctively when 
harmed. When the dog has been killed 
at once and sent to the laboratory, an ex- 
amination is made for the microscopic 
evidence of rabies, which often is not 
found, as in many such cases the dog is 
not affected with rabies. In order to be 
on the absolutely safe side, however, the 
laboratory is then required to inoculate 
rabbits with the brain tissue. The in- 
cubation in rabbits requires at least two 
weeks, during all of which time the per- 
son bitten is kept in suspense. On the 
other hand, if the animal were left to live 
it could be examined by a competent vet- 
erinarian for evidence of rabies, and if it 
remained normal for ten days the bite 
would be harmless. 
“* Therefore, after a person has been 
bitten, do not kill the dog unless a com- 
petent veterinarian has pronounced the 
disease rabies or the dog is showing well- 
marked symptoms. Instead, when prac- 
ticable, the animal should be tied up se- 
curely and watched carefully for a week 
or ten days. In case suspicious symp- 
tons do develop the dog should be ex- 
amined by a veterinarian familiar with 
the disease, and if he pronounces the 
case rabies the animal may then be 
killed and the laboratory will be able to 
find the pathognomic microscopic evi- 
dences. At the end of ten days the dog 
may be killed, if so desired, but if the 
animal is valuable and shows no symp- 
toms of rabies there is no reason for de- 
stroying it. In this way valuable dogs 
can often be saved to their owners.’’ 
What Dr. Hart has to say concerning 
the Symptoms of Rabies in the Dog is 
too long to quote, but in a ‘* Summary 
of Symptoms’’ on page 14, he says: 
““The important symptoms, any one 
of which when well marked should ren- 
der the dog suspicious and lead to its 
being confined, are: (1) Change in 
disposition; (2) alteration of voice; (3) 
inability to swallow; (4) leaving home 
and returning in an exhausted and ema- 
ciated condition; (5) paralysis of the 
jaw; (6) swallowing abnormal substan- 
ces, aS wood, stones, etc.’’ 
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