MR. GALSWORTHY'S STOCKTAKING
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with interest the excellent article by Mr. Galsworthy on the treatment of animals. He thinks that, under certain conditions, vivisection would be permissible, and he instances the case of the Pasteur treatment of hydro- phobia.
It is, however, a fact that this treatment has, from the first, been worse than a failure. In France the deaths from hydro- phobia in the five years after the Pasteur treatment began were greater than in the five years before the Pasteur treat- ment. In the records of the Pasteur Institutes there are 3,000 deaths from hydrophobia of persons treated on the Pasteur system. The serum for injection is obtained by the most horrible tortures of animals—I am, Sir, &c.,
7 Victoria Street, London, S.W . 1. ARNOLD LUPTON.,
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