Last Saturday a case came before the Bow Street magistrate
in which it was proved that dogs sold to the University College School of Physiology had been stolen in the London streets. The Jodrell Professor of Physiology was able to show that though he had regularly bought dogs from the man Hewett, who was tried at Bow Street, he had done so in perfect good faith. Hewett had, in fact, been required to make a declaration that all the animals supplied had been legally obtained. A declaration of this sort, however, is a very small protection for dogs roaming in the streets so long as each dog supplied is worth six shillings. Surely there is a source of supply to which no doubt .could possibly attach. It is said that more than 50,000 homeless dogs arc destroyed in London every year. With such a supply in existence there seems to be no need to enter into transactions which encourage dog-stealers.
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