The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-01 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday morning the greatest alarm prevailed
in the neighbourhood of this office, in consequence
of several dogs, in a rabid state, having bitten se-
veral of the inhabitants in York-street. Soon after
the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. GRECIORIE and
WHITE, had taken their seats, a person entered the
office, who gave his name Nathaniel Gosling, and
stated, that between ten and eleven o'clock that
morning, he was attacked in York-street, by a light
brown dog, of the mongrel breed, which bit him
severely in the leg, and lie had gone to the West-
minster Hospital, when the surgeons recommended
him to hare the part cut out and cauterized, which
operation he had undergone, through fear of being
attacked by hydrophobia. The dog afterwards bit
several other persons in the same street, and he
wished to know if something could not be done to
compel the inhabitants either to confine their dogs
or muzale them.

Mr. GREconm inquired if he knew to whom the
dog belonged ?—The applicant said he did not;
but the street swarmed with dogs, and the brown
dog he alluded to had bitten several of them.

Mr. GREGORIE asked what had become of the
animal ?—Mr. Jacobs, of the Broadway, here
stepped forward arid said he had been bitten by the
tilrie dog, but the teeth did not enter the flesh.
He however killed him.

About an hour after the above application, Mr
Benjamin Bell, a brazier, of No. 81, York-street,
Westminster, entered the office, and stated to the
Magistrates that he had been bitten by a brown
dog in York-street that morning, in two places on
the leg. He had been to the Westminster Hospital,
and undergone the painful operation of having the
flesh cut out, and he was directed by the surgeons
to communicate the circumstance at the office, that
measures might be taken to prevent dogs being suf-
fered to go about the streets. When he left the
Hospital, another person who had been bitten by
the same dog was undergoing a similar operation.
The Magistrates inquired how many persons had
actually been bitten ?—Mr. Bell believed no less
than six persons had undergone the operation of
having the flesh cut out that morning at the Hospital.
Mr. WIIITE said, that he had been consulting
with his colleagues, and notices would be imme-
diately issued from the office for all persons to con-
fine their dogs.
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Just as the Magistrates were about leaving the
bench, Covington, one of the beadles of the Grosve-
nor-square district, entered the office with a dog, and
stated, that a dog in a rabid state had bitten two
persons in Queen-street, Pimlico, and he was de-
sired by the trustees of the district to ask the
Magistrates how they were to act.
Mr. WiirrE asked if the animal he had in a string
was the one that had bitten the persons.—The
beadle said he was not. The mad dog had made
his escape. '1 he dog he had with him he could find
no owner for, and there were hundreds of dogs about
the district that had no owners. The trustees wanted
to know what should be done with dogs found under
such circumstances.

Mr. -WHITE said, he thought the best plan would
be to confine such dogs, to see whether they were
in an ill state of health, and if they were not owned,
it might be then matter of consideration whether
they ought to be destroyed.—The beadle said, that
the trustees were determined to put the local Act in
force, which levied a fine of 51. upon all persons
who suffered their dogs to be at large.
Mr. WHITE said, he thought the trustees would
act perfectly right by so doing, and he would wil-
lingly grant summonses against any person in the
district, on application being made at the office.