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are often improperly fed and treated, and are in the hands of a 
more ignorant class of people. 
I should think that cart-stallions may average 10, half-bred 12, 
and thorough-bred 14. 
5. I cannot but think that mares of all classes may live to 
about the same age as horses. 
6. The average mortality I should think to be, 
in the first class . 1 in 20 every year 
in the second class 1 in 22 
in the third class . 1 in 24, or, perhaps, not quite so 
many in either class. 
In the fourth class (hunters) 10. 
As for stallions I can say but little. 
7. Enteritis and Pneumonia. I almost think that as many horses 
die from enteritis as from all other diseases put together, and 
principally from the shameful neglect of not calling in early and 
proper assistance. 
9. Principally strangles — and, if worked, more subject to every 
disease than older ones, especially to bowel complaints, and the 
diseases of the air-passages. In young stock there is no great 
fatality, not even from strangles. 
10. Iam inclined to think that all should be insured, in order 
to satisfy the farmer. 
11. If I am asked at what rate per cent, the different classes of 
horses may, or ought to be insured, my reply must be, that I 
cannot tell. It depends on various circumstances, and principally 
on the age of the animal. To this, however, it may be interesting 
to add a list of the patients that have partly or entirely passed 
under my care. 
Statement of Diseases . 
2 Cart horses . . 
1 Cart mare . . . 
I Hack mare . . 
1 Cart filly . . . 
1 Hack filly . . • 
10 Cart horses . . 
13 Cart mares . . 
2 Hack horses . 
1 Hack pony . . 
1 Hack two-year old 
3 Hack mares . . 
1 Two-year old filly 
Strangulation and enteritis. 
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Enteritis. 
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