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Show RABIES PREVALENT IN THIS COUNTRY Preliminary information indicates indi-cates that in 1943 33 human beings be-ings died of rabies, which is the worst record in five years. There are no figures on the persons who have been saved from this horrible death through the Pasteur treatment. treat-ment. The experts who study rabies report that there seems to be no evidence that the dread malady Is anywhere near liquidation. For various reasons, probably some arising from wartime conditions, dogs continue to go mad and to avoid all efforts of public officials to apprehend them. Dr. Harry W. Schoening, chief of the Pathological division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, says that the control of rabies depends upon licensing of all dogs in a community, picking up and destroying de-stroying unclaimed strays and in keeping all dogs off the streets when rabies appears. He points out that health officials often fail to receive the wholehearted support sup-port of the public in these operations. opera-tions. While it is distasteful to the average av-erage individual to contemplate the destruction of dogs, there is no choice when this seems to be necessary nec-essary to protect human beings from hydrophobia. The consequences consequen-ces of infection are inevitably intense in-tense suffering and death. Consequently, Conse-quently, no chances can be taken by responsible health officials or by right-thinking Individuals despite de-spite their love of dogs. |