OPERATION ON A HEN IN HOSPITAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 December 1909, Page 1

OPERATION ON A HEN IN HOSPITAL.

An unorthodox patient has been tended at the London Hospital, '•Polly," the pet hen of. two little East End children, having had its leg set by one of the medical, staff, to to the unbounded gratitude of its youthful owners. "Polly." is one of a Plymouth Rock brood of four which have been scratching for a precarious existence in an apology for a back garden in a street off the Mile End Road. "Polly," who was the pet of the family, caught her leg in the fence, and broke it. The patient was •wrapped up itn an apron and conveyed to the hospital. The doorkeeper shook his head, and explained with . considerable sarcasm that the hospital was not a "fowl run" The children — brother and sister — were turning away wlien one of the house surgeons, who was going off duty, learning the nature of their visit, invited them inside and proceeded to set the broken' limb. "Polly" is not yet able to ■ dip for worms, but is dping as well as could be expected. Although this is the first time that chicken has been a patient at the London Hospital, one of the physicians says that.it is by no means infrequent for dogs and other dometsic pets to he takenthere. They are sometimes treated by any of the medical staff who happen to be off duty, but are generally passed on to a veterinary hospital. '