The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-11
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floor Of a stable, nor yet a basement, but
q complete building, divided into tiny
wards and fitted with every convenience
for restoring health to sick dogs.
This queerest of all hospitals is To-
Gated on the high bank hat overlooks
Rock Creek. near the Geological Park.
DR.. Cecil French. a professor in the
veterinary department of Columbia Uni
versity is the pr esiding genius. The
building is one-story high. forty feet long
and twenty feet wide. Through the con-
ter of it is q corridor extending the
length of the building, and opening on
this corridor are twelve cosy rooms,
five on each side and two at the north
end.
Each of these small rooms is fitted up
with hardwood and is heated by hot wa
ter pipes SO adjusted thai the heat may
be hut off from one and maintained in
others as desired. The rooms have a
large window and a door opening to the
run or playground, and a ventilator
over the door opening on the corridor.
So
These rooms are divided into wards for
the occupancy of dogs having contagious
diseases. such as mango and distemper;
for invalid dogs having ailments that
are not contagious. including accidents.
and for boarders, which are generally
pets left there while the owner is out
Of the city. The arrangement of the
j wards is such that the animals suffering
from contagious diseases are completely
isolated.
At the south end of the corridor the
operating room is on one side and the
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room is supplied with hot and cold water,
a zinc covered operating table SO ar
ranged that all blood and water are con-
yeyed from it to the sewer by pipes. In
this room DR.. French performs his sur
gical operations, from the alnputation of
a leg to enterotomy.
! A pet dachshund, owned by Miss Dor
othy Rockhill, daughter of the Assistant
Secretary OF State. recently swallowed a
peach stone that he had picked up along
the street. He suffering became in
tense. and it was feared that the ami
NAL would have to be shot. Miss Rock
hill was greatly attached to the little
pet, who, because of his mischievous ma
ture, was called Sin, and before con-
senting to his being killed she consulted
DR.. French. The animal was taken to
the infrmary and the difficult operation
of enterotomy successfully performed,
and now Sin Is as lively in the house
of the Assistant Secretary of State as
ever.
Pet dogs suffer much from toothache,
and the extraction of the offending teeth
is a daily occurrence at the infirmary.
A few days ago a we'll known society
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spaniel to the infirmary for treatment.
The dog was blanketed and carried in
her arms as she left her carriage and
walked to the building.
The owner appeared to be greatly dis
tressed over the suffering of the dog,
and she begged DIR. French to cure it.
An examination showed that the animal
had ~toothache, and when informed that
the OFFENDING tooth could easily be ex-
tracted the society lady cried
.'Oh, no, doctor. not for the world.
He would be a sight with the front tooth
gone. Can't you fill it?"
DR.. French had never filled a tooth
land is not a dentist, but he knew how
the work should be done. and he re-
Piled
Certainly, madam; leave the animal
with me for three days and l win have
him all right"
The woman departed in her carriage
and DIR. French an hour later was in the
Office of a dentist. The dentist accom-
panied him back. The dog was placed on
the operating table, put under the infiu-
ence of an anaesthetic, and while DR..
French watched the pulse the dentist
buried out the cavity and in an hour had
inserted a gold filling which glistened
in the sunlight as perfectly as if it had
been in the incisor of a human being.
When the owner of the dog called for
him she was delighted with the work,
and the fee she left was proportionate
to her delight.
Mrs. Moth-the first-is early abroad,
and generally makes herself useful during
the month of April. When the winters
clothing is finally taken in hand to put
away for the summer it may receive but
casual treatment, and when it goes into
permanent quarters carries with it the
Little knots of eggs. In due time these
hatch, then something else happens, and
perhaps months later the good housewife
wonders how these vexatious and ruina-
tious moths got into her strong box. The
unfortunate woman does not realize thai
unwittingly she herself put them there.
says Good Housekeeping"
On q bright sunny day the woolens
which are to be put away for the sum
mer should be taken into the outer air,
given a thorough busting and brushing,
cleaned of any grease spots, if such there
are. and hung for several hours in the
bright sunlight. If his has been thor
oughly done the garments will be free
from eggs. It remains then to draw them
or pack them in such a manner that the
moths cannot get to them. The simplest
way is to enclose each garment in a stout
paper sack, free from rent or hole, and SO
secured tina the mother moth cannot find
entrance. She will not attempt to per-
forate the paper.
The utility of such odorous articles as
camphor, tobacco, cedar, cloves and the
like. is very much doubted by those Civ
ing the matter most attention. Very
likely they may deter the flying moth
from alighting where there is q smell dis
agreeable to her. to deposit her eggs; but
once the eggs are laid. the larva will
hatch just the same, and once Matched
will devour their surroundings. according
to their nature