Cites Ruislip Dog Sanatorium
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'Mr. Hamilton Kirk, M.R.C.V.S., who is in charge of the Ruislip Dog Sanatorium, Middlesex, lately showed a London Press representative his doggie and feline patients. The injured animals should consider themselves lucky, for medical skill is applied to them which even a human being would be thankful to receive.

Injured eyes are replaced by artificial ones, broken toes mended, and influenza and other ailments peculiar to doggies are cured. The sanatorium is of the best modern style. There are a reception-room, a surgery, an isolation ward for infectious cases, an observation ward, cooking-room, and a doggie's bathroom, all specially built.

For healthy dogs which arc sent to Ruislip for a country holiday there is a river in the grounds as their swimming bath as well as fields for exercise.

"A few weeks ago," said Mr. Kirk, "a King Charles spaniel who had a great affection for cats came to the sanatorium with a lacerated eye. The cat with which he had tried to be friendly not only spurned him, but attacked him, with the result that I had to put him under an anaesthetic and provide him with a glass eye.

"Dogs are sent here from all parts of the country. Many women who have brought their pets to me have cried piteously over them, while men and women are constantly sending me telegrams making anxious inquiries.

"One little fox terrier sent to me had his foot crushed under a motor omnibus. and I had to cut off two of his toes. Now he runs about as merrily as ever.

"Another fox terrier was sent here for treatment when he developed distemper two days after his arrival. He was immediately put into the isolation hospital.

"This dog was treated like a hospital patient while he was ill. This was his diet:-

Breakfast: Milk and eggs beaten.

Dinner: Milk and eggs, and cornflour and Benger's babyfood mixed.

Drinks: Barley water and rice water.

This dog was so bad that he was watched day and night all the time he was ill. Other dogs have been treated with cough mixture twice daily, and an old Clumber spaniel suffering from diabetes was given brandy every half-hour to act as a stimulus during the crisis of his illness.

Hair restorer is often applied to dogs which go bald, and other dog patients are fed on cooked plaice. Only a few days ago the mistress of a little Pekinese ordered a sole for his dinner. This cost a shilling.

The cost for medical treatment and keep at this sanatorium is 12s. 6d. a week.'