New-York tribune., 1903-04-02
DIR. GILL FOR MUZZLING.
Calls Rabies Easy to Stamp Out
Bl0mes s. Il. {. Il.

There was a meeting Of the Bellevue Medical As-
sociation at the Yale Club last night at which
there vigorous discussion Of the mad dog
question. DR.. H. d GIL. the well known veterinary
surgeon. and DR.. Robert J. Wilson and Dr. Follen
Cabot. jr. OF the Health Department read papers,
and then the members commented on the views
advanced. The subject. because OF the recent cases
OF supposed hydrophobia. caused the greatest In
terest in the meeting.
DR.. Gill believed that rabies widespread. but
easily stamped out After describing the two forms
of rabies the furious and dumb" he took up the
remedy
the dangerous dog He described the methods Of
the : p. 4 a, which he condemned severely N
certain cases Dr.. GIN continued
F3v its ignorant methods this society may be
accessory 10 The spread OF rabies as Wen as pa ~
and bites another which is later claimed and taken
home. He. III turn. might bite other ooss OF per
II is high time that this question should be taken
Of the hands Of a private cor IStAOn a IS
placed under the municipal control OF the fieal'h
Br. salmon states that there is no disease more
easily eradicated than rabies As II can only ar ne
from contagion. and TIE eontagion Is praetlcaliy
aIprays transferred by dogs bite, il sufaces TO
stop the dogs from biting Tor a peIleo sulcle.lt "a
10 cover the incubatory stage about year. 10
stamp out the malady. ,z - a1t
Al vagrant dogs should oe 1eSSToy S g51b nj, | Iaces
dogs appearing or the streets aIS III pogc pt iSL
should be properly m1izzieG me resQlts ~iI1Sn
vTent wherever there is an outbreak or RABIES: IN
Berlin. from 1875 1853 there came to me NeIeIl
nary school a yearly average OF Ihirty-hVe cases
from March 1882 TO March 1888 there were eishty-
two cases and March 1888. TO the END or uiF
there were thirty-seven more on July 70 nuzzllng
was generally enforced, and only SIX cases M were
reported the rest OF the year Only -FOUR cases
we're observed IN the whole city in 1874, and oniy
one case in 1855 For the seven years following
IN Ks r,lIzzine was relaxed and rabies gradual
IL increased until 1875 q law was passed that
All dogs SUSPECTED Of rabies should be immediately
killed as also all animals evidently bitten oy
"a hid animals and that al dogs IN a dlstflcL IN
tested by rabies be confined, or wnen aoIoaQ ps
both rnuzzied and tied. After the enforcement OF
Thar law no case occurred for about ten years.
Fleming states that in Vienna rabies was enlre-
" suppressed by eighteen months OF StrlnSeilt
rn11zzlirg but 1856 the order was rescinded ana
badEes had TO be cog collars instead IN
the following half year there was only one case OF
tae disease but in the next half year rabies be
came epidemic and the muzzle had again 10 pc
worn with the result that the malady soon SUD
sided and disappeared"
For London alone. in 1855, twenty-seven deaths
were reported as due to the bites Of rabid dogs
A r7uzziinR order then enforced, and at the
END OF 1856 not a death was recorded Infort-
rnatelv the order then rescinded. and IN
few months a case Of hydrophotia occurred IN the
south Of London. soon TO be followed by otners:
and IN 1889 ten deaths were registered In july OF
that year the mUzzng order was again issued
snd sfringently carried out. and rabies once more
lisa pQesred