Sketches at the dogs home, Battersea, 1886

Sketches at the dogs home, Battersea. Stray dogs captured in the street by the police are usually sent to an excellent institution, the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs in Battersea Road, south London. Those wearing collars are kept for five days, and those without collars three days, for their owners to come and claim them, after which time, if in good condition, they may be sold. Those which are in such a diseased and miserable state as to be unfit to live are put to a painless death, a number of them at once, by inhaling a narcotic vapour in the lethal chamber invented by Dr B W Richardson. The illustration shows fresh arrivals, dogs in open-air pens, and the lethal chamber

Battersea Charities Gassed Gassing Lethal Open-air Pens Rounded Sketches Starving Stray Strays Temporary

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > ILN