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with a prepared floor, is essential for operations; this 

 building should be provided with water and the needful 

 convenience for instruments. 



A suitable exercising ground for convalescents should 

 be available, while paddocks if obtainable would prove 

 invaluable. 



A vapour bath is a most useful accessory in a hospital, 

 but should an outside source of steam not be available 

 for connection with it, these baths prove troublesome 

 unless in regular use. 



In addition to the ordinary hospital buildings, other 

 stables both boxes and stalls are required for such cases as 

 need isolation. These isolation buildings do not differ in 

 construction from those previously described, but it is most 

 important they should form a block, not only apart from 

 the other places, but completely self-contained, viz., their 

 own forage store, place for dressing wounds, exercising 

 ground, etc. It should also be provided with a separate 

 entrance, everything in fact done to render it completely 

 isolated. 



Facilities should also exist for the disinfection of the 

 clothing worn by the horses and men in attendance, and 

 the latter should be provided with means for washing and 

 disinfecting themselves when necessary. 



The above remarks necessarily refer to specially estab- 

 hshed hospitals ; but even with large private stables 

 facilities should exist for the treatment of the sick, 

 and special boxes for this purpose, isolated from the 

 other part of the building, are now sometimes erected. 

 They are most desirable, for the sick cannot with safety or 

 satisfaction be treated in the ordinary stable. 



Even the homestead should not be without facihties for 

 this purpose, and especially is this the case in a dairy farm, 

 where, depending on its size, one or more boxes should 

 exist for calving purposes. On no account should cows be 

 permitted to calve in the ordinary byre, or abortion amongst 

 the others may occur. 



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