Show I 1 public disease of dod do menace to health great decree by AUSTIN PETERS boston M N a consideration of tile the dog as a menace to the public health there is in one disease above all others 0 to o be looked upon as particularly dangerous and that is rabies other possible sources of ini mischief are arc trivial and insignificant I 1 in comparison with this disease pec liliar to tho the do 10 c and dog dog family of which lie fie is the principal 1 the virus virus of rabies is conveyed by ills his saliva into wounds i by ills hid bite or even into any fresh cut on the lie face or I 1 landa ianda of a person into which the saliva may be introduced byj byi licking at times when cases of rabies are arc roro rare among logs dogs there is very verv little danger to tile lie health of tile the community from froin hydrophobia but every twelve or fifteen years a surplus population of extra susceptible canines accumulates and then sonic some dog or dog with rabies start an outbreak which becomes alti almost lost epizootic under these conditions the log dog becomes a menace to the public health to a much greater renter de deree degree ree than the misinformed raisin formed generally realize rc alic one of these periodical outbreaks of rabies has hs been taking place in massachusetts during tile the past five years but present I 1 lit indications are arc that it is about over as very few cases cosea have been reported to the cattle bureau during tit tin past months there was not nit an authentic all case of oe rabies in massachusetts 11 froin Sc september pember 1903 until november 49 during the gvinter of 1901 and 1905 a few MIRA cases occurred d in various localities and by the spring of 1905 the outbreak was waa yell well under way attaining b its height lit in 1007 1907 since which timi it lias has grade gradually ally declined until the disease disc use lias has again nearly disappeared |