THE ANIMALS' HOSPITAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1215, 25 August 1911, Page 9

THE ANIMALS' HOSPITAL.

Ono of. the most interesting visits paid by the local magnates while in England waa tho one paid to the Animals' Hospital in Belgrave Strest, London (says the English correspondent of an Australian paper). There are wards there for the different animals. Only the animals of tho poor are accepted as patients, and as a man's living often depends on his animal, it can be readily understood that the hospital fills a very useful purpose. Costers' donkeys, blind men's dogs—these are probably the most marvellously intelligent of their species, and cats that nro a source of income to their owner, are all included among the patients. Some forty, or fifty dogs and cats are brought daily to the hospital as out-patients, and since it was founded no fewer than 60,000 animals have been treated. One of tho most singular things about the institution is that whenever it'is possible it lends donkeys or' "ponies, to" deserving ' costers, The same thing-was attempted with, dogs for blind; men", but it "was found that not one dog in a hundred will trustworthy carry out the- duties of a blind man's guide unless it has been trained to the business. ■■