Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-18
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IN SALT LAKE CITY
ONLY, AT
j. z. GARDNER'S
i8-l35 MAIN STREET,
THE HORSE IN BATTLE.

Horses wounded on the battle field are
duly attended 10 when no danger 20
human lie Is involved The veterinary
officer IN charge Is expected TO follow
close on the firing line, and. together
with a number OF aides 60 Inspect prop
erly wounded animals and give iustruc-
lions for their removal or slaughter as
the case may be. The veterinary sur.
geon IS naturally exposed to cOnsd-
cradle danger. but u his work Is not
carried out during the progress Of
hostilities In an probability IL cannot be
accomplished afterwards. for although
the Royal Army medical corps is all
lowed TO proceed 90 the rescue OF
wounded men under the Red Cross, the
members Of the army veterinary de-
partment are not permitted 70 attend 10
the injured horses, because they are not
under the protection OF the Geneva con-
vention, which makes no provision
whatsoever for wounded animals
At the conclusion of the battle, II u
has been decisive and one or other Of
the cCmbatant armies has been driven
from the field, a party OF veterinary
surgeons, with their assistants, Is sent
out to examine every animal that has
fallen. and TO shoot such as are badly
slight injuries are collected and taken
TO the veterinary hospital lines, formed
at fixed camps and established on a
similar basis to those cf the Royal Army
medical corps. Here they are again
examined b. the officers waiting for
their reception, and operated on as oc-
caslon may necessitate. The station Is
fitted with operating tables upon which
the animals are strapped for the eXtraC-
ton Of bullets. after which they are
sent down 10 the sick horse hospitals
for recovery.
The thousands Of horses killed in
every important battle have 20 be dis
posed Of, they are either buried or
burned according to the climate. in
South Africa. burial is always resorted
70. but In some Of the northern parts
Of India, the carcasses are left where
they fall. and In less than eight hours
afterwards are picked clean by the yul-
lures. This is BY far the best way from
a unitarian point ~ view, for the bones
may afterwards bt elected and ground
down Tor manure The lnterment Of
slaughtered animals Is always left 70
the burial parties and can scarcely be
said to be any part Of the veterinary
surgeons duties.
In q cavalry charge, especially when
the firing is AT long range, IL Is practl-
cally impossible for the enemy to aim
az so small a figure as the human being
with any certain chance Of hitting him.
and so, the horse presenting the larger
target. the list Of casualties amongst
horses, under these circumstances, Is
NATURALLY greater than amongst men.
At Talayera 200 horses were killed
and $40 men while at the famous charge
Of the light brigade at Balaclava, the
losses amongst horses were 800 and
amongst men 2s0,
The horse Is more liable TO suffer from
hunger and want Of rest than a man,
and consequently We find that in all
protracted wars the loss in horses from
disease Is terrible heavy In Napo-
Icons campaign across the Nemen out
OF $1,000 horses no fewer than IS coo
succumber IN six months At the siege
Of Plevna, the Russians lost over thirty
per cent Of their draught animals, and
in the Egyptian war Of 1852, half the
English horses were disabled, Of which
500 died from sickness and only sixty
on the field OF ttle.--Pearson's Mag
azine.