1935 Pittman-Moore rabies vaccine tag

[BlackX]

I've been googling around trying to find info on when dogs started being inoculated against rabies but I'm not finding any info. Anyone know? Anyhow...

It's been dry lately so I haven't been getting out much but I got out briefly a few days ago and went back to where I found the '21 SLQ a month or so ago. Did find a cruddy 1865 Indian but the interesting thing, I thought, was this rabies tag (that I excitedly thought was a luggage tag 'cause it's near an old railway terminal but, when I got home and washed it off, saw that it wasn't). Is this a dog rabies tag?

 

[daroofa]

"An epizootiologic transition began in the United States in the 1920s, when rabies prevention efforts were no longer focused exclusively on human vaccination but began to include programs for the control of rabies in dogs. Domestic animal cases gradually declined, largely as a result of local dog rabies control programs that included vaccination, stray animal removal, and leash and muzzle ordinances."

http://www.fas.org/ahead/docs/rabies.htm

 

[BlackX]

Thanks, Daroofa!

(I did find the Pittman_Moore created one of the strains of vaccines.)