Horses on board ship : a guide to their management / by M. Horace Hayes.

Matthew Horace Hayes

Date:: 1902

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Credit: Horses on board ship : a guide to their management / by M. Horace Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PERCENTAGE OF EQUINE MOR- TALITY AT SEA. Although I can offer no details respecting the death rate of horses carried in small numbers, statistics most kindly furnished to me by the A.V.D. enable me to supply my readers with the following very interesting table, which refers to remounts shipped to South Africa from various countries, from November, 1899, to July, 1901. Unfortunately, it is only an approximation ; because, in many cases, reports of several shipments were not sent in to the War Office or were imperfect. Their omission does not materially affect the