7 FEBRUARY 1891, Page 3

A letter from Cairo states that the dog-scare has reached

that place. " I was struck," writes a correspondent, " with the absence of dogs in the bazaars and streets, and remarked on it to our Arab. He replied : 'It is the English fault. They set the police to give them bits of bread with poison on.' This is too bad, rabies never having been known in Cairo. The Arab said they were all sorry at losing the dogs." To poison the scavengers of the East is about the worst piece of sanitary work the police could be set to do. And who set them to work at so senseless as well as cruel a task ? We ought to know. It will be well if the result is not plague.