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Mrs. J. A. Hawkins
Funeral services were held Saturday for Mrs. Magnolia Courtney Hawkins, widow of John Augustine Hawkins, of Rappahannock, who died at the home of her daughter,* Mrs. Nancy Kaleo, in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, February 6.
Mrs. Hawkins, 75, iwas a daughter of the late Henry Franklin Hawkins and Mrs. Nancy Hawkins of Rappahannock. 'She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Kaleo, and a foster-daughter, Mrs. Helen Brown, of Baltimore; and a son by a former marriage, F. Linville ISimms, of Culpeper.
-0RABIES IN VIRGINIA
HIGHEST SINCE 1944
“During 1951 Virginia had its highest iqcidence of rabies since 1944, with a total of 223 cases of animal rabies reported,” accordng to a recent report submitted to thy Commission by Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, State , Health Commissioner. It is generally known that the dog is the most common transmitter of rabies, but the occurence of the virus in foxes makes it of particular siginficance in the wildlife field. Sections hardest hit during the past year were Fauquier and Lpudoun counMes in northern Virginia; Lee, Washington, and Wythe counties in southern Virginia; and the City of Richmond. With this report comes startling information from the State Health Department that 1952 is well on its way to being another bad year for rabies in Virginia. Already, during January, 26 cases of positive rabid foxes have been reported from the three northern counties of Fauquier, Loudoun, and Warren. One case has been reported, thus far, from Wythe county- ty
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