Dogs spread many diseases - most terrible of these being rabies. In a recent year 111 human beings in the United States died of hydrophobia. Tens of thousands of dogs suffering from this disease are killed, and yet there is no excuse for its existence. Years ago the disease became so general in England as to amount to a national menace. A stringent muzzling law was enacted, its terms enforced, and a quarantine on imported dogs established, with the result that the disease has entirely disappeared from the country, the only case that has occurred since 1902 being that of an imported dog held in a six months' quarantine.

Australia and New Zealand have a similar quarantine, and the disease has never reached those lands. The man who asserts that it is the populace and not the dog that goes mad when there is a rabies scare should recall that the same conditions prevailed in England until the enactment of the muzzling and quarantine law.

Other diseases which the wandering dog is known to spread are hyatid and gid, both worm complaints, the first affecting the liver, kidneys, brain, and lungs, and the other attacking the brain and spinal cord of farm animals; tapeworm, which attacks man and beast alike, roundworm, etc.