The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-05
CONDEMNED 800 CATTLE.
SPECIAL SECTION ON RABIES IN
STATE c0MMISsIoNER'S REPORT

Total Payments by the State for Con-
demned Cattle Amounted TO over
Five Thousand DolIars-OutbreaIx az
Rabies is by No Means Confined to
Dogs, Says the Report.
The annual report of General Heman
Q. Ayerill, commissioner on diseases of
domestic animals, presented to Cover
nor Roberts, covers the period ended
September 30, 1906 The laws regard
ing domestic animals are given and the
summary of the years work by the
commissioner shows that he received
GIL calls to examine cattle from lis
towns in the state. They examined A.
S19 head and condemned 49, for which
the state paid an average price of
$11.38 head marked-down price
from some former payments a few
years ago.
The total payment by the state for
condemned cattle was $5,451.5O; adding
the office and travelling expenses, $977.-
IS, and payments to veterinarians for
services and expenses, including exaln-
nations for CHAMBERS, $1,551.6e, makes
the total expenses of the administra-
ton of General AverilPs office. exclu.-
sive of his salary, $7,980.27.
There We're 6,051 head of COWS, heif-
ers, oxen, steers, bulls and calves
brought into the state during the year.
fxyffx NV i.1 To
invited the commissioner to inspect
cattle and five towns in Hartford coain-
ty invited examination. The conclu-
sion of the commissioner is that no
county by reason Of locality can claim
any apprecia'ble freedom from bovine
tuberculosis.
In comparison Of seven years'
work 1t is shown that an Increased av-
erage expense per head of cattle con-
demned the past year was caused by
the cost of executing the new law re-
lating to the suppression OF CHAMBERS.
| Don the subject of rabies, the commits
sioner says
| There have been during the year q
| large number of cases of rabies. The
malady has appeared in nearly all
sections of the state. A general cpl
demic of the disease has been preven-
| ted only by the prompt action Of many
town officials and individuals in order
ing all dogs in their jurisdiction to be
either confined or muzzled, and in
killing every dog at once that has been
found rabid or acting in suspicious
manner. OOwners of dogs that have
/ haay, l,itfa,, lxr .~t,o ', eya doerr have r;+t,
er killed their dogs at once or cle1ely
coinned them, awaiting developments,
and then killed them as soon as they
showed any symptoms of rabiess
The outbreak, very unfortunately,
has not been confined to dogs, but a
/ number Of cattle, swine and horses
have shown unmistakable evidences OF
the disease and have either died or
been killed to end their sufferings.
| Several persons have been either Bit
ten by rabid dogs or had their hands
exposed in the saliva of such an ami
NAL. So far as known to this office all
such exposed persons, with two excep-
tons, have promptly taken the Pas
teur treatment and thus revented the
development OF the disease. The two
exceptions referred to- in agonizing
deaths by hydrophobia, paid awful
penalties for their failure to take the
treatment.
In the fact of the danger of an cpl
demic of the frightful malady, the
commissioner, owing to the limitations
of the law, felt himself powerless to
act as the exigencies of the situation
seemed to demand. All that he might
do was to attempt to awaken public
sentiment by giving information re-
garding the prevalence and seriousness
of the disease and suggesting certain
steps that local authorities might take
to prevent its further spread. With
this end in view the commissioner pre-
pared a bulletin on rabies.