Popular Science Monthly 



723 



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 



