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��terrible malady than any other is the city work horse whose driver thinks he is doing the animal a kindness by over- feeding him on Saturdays, half-holidays and Sundays.

A horse suf- fering from azo- turia will drop in the street and be unable to rise. His hind legs rendered useless; the ani- mal loses con- trol over his legs. Death may re- sult in a few hours. At best the horse may live several days, suffering in- tenseh'. If a horse which has fallen in the street is hurried to a hospital he sometimes re- covers. The dis- ease is steadily increasing among city horses and is the cause of the greatest anxiety to veterinary surgeons. If horse owners would cut down their horses' feed during the days of rest or would see that the animals are rations are fed danger. Every

��operating rooms; and it requires a number of ambulances. In the model animal hospital maintained by the American Society for the Prevention of

���The victim of a street aci-i^cwL. 1 m^ nuisc camiui walk. So he is being conveyed from the ambulance to the operating table by means of a trolley. He is an unusually large horse but his feet just clear the floor. He is supported by the sling and a man keeps his hands on head and chest, both to reassure the horse and to prevent him from turning around

��exercised when full there would be no work day following a Saturday or Monday holiday the veter- inary hospitals are crowded with un- fortunate azoturia victims. Despite the progress of veterinary science, azoturia is as baffling to the veterinary to-day as it was twenty years ago.

The animal hospital is conducted in much the same way as if its patients were human beings. Everything about it is sanitary to the last degree. It is divided into accident wards and con- tagious wards; it has perfectly equipped

��Cruelty to Animals in New York city, every possible provision is made for the care and comfort of the patients. The white-tiled wards are all thoroughly sanitary. The cat and dog wards have white cages in which the patients are kept.

The Department of Health sends all rabid dogs which have bitten persons to this hospital. Here they are kept in a large ward by themselves. If, at the end of twelve days, they show no signs of rabies they may be returned to their owners; if they develop the disease they are humanely killed. When the small

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