The horse and the war . ement factory, the other many miles away on the outskirts of a famous was at the latter hospital that I was much struck with the close attentiongiven to feeding. Every individual horse, most of them wasted in condition aswell as going through the mange cure, seemed to be considered. Then themaking of hay racks and partitions between stalls, all made with the old wirefrom baled hay, were items of clever contrivance. It was at this hospital thatthe patients were dipped in an arsenical bath in preference to calcium is said to be more efficacious, and is
The horse and the war . ement factory, the other many miles away on the outskirts of a famous was at the latter hospital that I was much struck with the close attentiongiven to feeding. Every individual horse, most of them wasted in condition aswell as going through the mange cure, seemed to be considered. Then themaking of hay racks and partitions between stalls, all made with the old wirefrom baled hay, were items of clever contrivance. It was at this hospital thatthe patients were dipped in an arsenical bath in preference to calcium is said to be more efficacious, and is certainly less obnoxious. This hospitalhas passed through 40,000 animals, of which 24,000 had been sent to the neigh-bouring base remount depot and 8,000 to convalescent horse depots. Everygeneral horse hospital takes special pride in its operating theatres, in perfectcleanliness, and in the refreshing and quiet stimulus of patches of grass lawnhere and there. Everywhere an endeavour is made to secure rest and thorough. ? p p\ ^Sr^^v I |Wd i 1 I II io8 THE HORSE AND THE WAR change for the patients. Everywhere, also, equipment is up to date andscrupulously clean. As auxiliary help the Veterinary Service appreciates nothing more thanthe work done for the State by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Crueltyto Animals. It is a fact, 1 believe, that this Society has made grants up todate totalling £100,000 to the cause of sick and wounded animals in war by theprovision of hospital accommodation, horse ambulances and laboratoryappliances. I have no impression of one hospital being better than another. Where allare so good I should indeed be sorry to single out one for special praise, but I mustnot omit to mention one close to the coast because of the clever and resource-ful way in which an old brick-works, its sheds and its fields, covering an areaof about forty acres, have been adapted as a hospital. There I saw a surgeonperform an operation for quittor, which is a form of sor
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