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413 In the last few years an inoculation method to immunize dogs has been developed in Japan and extensively used in Connecticut , New Jersey and oth : r parts of this country . l Fere this method effective ani could we develop immunity again : t rabies in all our dogs , the problem would be solved . Unfortunately this method is not as effective as was at first suppoeed and inoculated dogs have come down with the disease . Until its effectiveness is increased it would seem to us unwise to reuire inoculation but from experience at the tgell Memorial Hospital and elsewhere I feel that with the present temper of our people , inoculation is more effective than restraint and I have used it on my or, n :log . It would , therefore , be wise for you to consider operating town clinics for the free inoculation of dogs in order to popularize this method . ► ome towns have required the restraint of sll dogs except those showing evidence of inoculation which has become popularized by this method . This has its drawbacks because in the first place the method is not cdmpletely effective and rabid dogs may in this way be at large , and in the second place it has been found that the tags on the collars have been stolen and put on uninoculated dogs . The city of cuincy and the town of iJilton have , within a year or more , issued ordinances in regard to the restraint of dogs , copies of which I am enclosing . I am forwarding your letter to lar . Richardson , the Director of the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Cons , rvation , for his opinion on this matter . Yours truly , George a . Bigelow, M . D . Commissioner of Public Ecaith . It was voted to accept the report and place the same on file . Art . 9 . Under this article on motion of Dr . James J . Yalsh the following vote was passed . " Voted : That the sum of nine hundred and sixty dollars ( 960 . 00 ) be appropriated and assessed , under Chapter 67 , Acts of 1933 , being " an act authorizing Cities and Towns to appropriate money to provide facilities for Public Entertainment in connection with th ; t Jational Convention of the American Legion to be held in the current year " , for the purpose of public entertainment of visitors to the Town of Lexington , in connection with the Jational Convention of the American Legion , to be held in October 1930 , this money to be expended under direction of the Board of Selectmen . " The Appropriation Committee approved the appropriition . Arts . 10 and 11 . On Dr . Clarence Shannon ' s motion it was voted that articles 13 and 11 be taken up together . Under these articles Dr . Shannon offered the following motion which was passed unanimously : " Voted : That the Town purchase from Lois M . and Lillian G . Marshall a portion of the land owned by them near the Cary Memorial Library compris ink, lot C as shown on a " Plan of Land in Lexington , Mass . , Scale 1P equals 10 ' October 14 , 1929 , E . N . Montague , C . E . vest Acton , ass . " , bounded and described as follows : Southwesterly by land now or formerly of William E . Lenham , 50 . 85 feet ;