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RABIES.
Provisions for the seizure, detention, and disposal of straydogs
are contained in the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867,which
is carried out in the County of London by the Metropolitan
Police. The aggregate of dogs killed in the five years,
1888-92, was 888, of which number 220 were, on post-mortem
examination, found to be rabid. The numbers in the successive
years were 49, 123, 32, 13, and 3. The seizures in
1889 were 330, the cases of rabies, 123. In 1893 the seizures
were 127, and the deaths from rabies 8. This disease also is
transmissible, as hydrophobia, to man, the aggregate deaths
from which, in London, in the four years, 1888-91, were 14, of
which 7 occurred in 1889. In 1892-93 there were no deaths
from this cause.
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
The mortuary was opened in July, 1883. In the first
year, to March 25th, 1884, 24 bodies were deposited; in the
second year 67; in the third year 100; in the fourth year 97;
in the fifth year 100; in the sixth year 128; in the seventh
year 135; in the eighth year 207; in the ninth year 256; in
the tenth year 239, and in the eleventh year, to March 25,
1894, 252.