Cattle Ships Being the Fifth Chapter of Mr Plimsolls Second Appeal for Our Se
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To save those nearest to it, the cattle-men dragged it out, and left it help- less and suffering on deck. For thirty hours it lay there, until it died from exhaustion. ' From this time out began the awful sufferings of the animals. That most agonising disease known among cattle-men as red water on the following Thursday made its appearance, and not a day went by, even after the ship had passed the Isle of Wight, that from one to four head of cattle did not die, and have to be thrown overboard ;... while many more were landed at Deptford in a dying state. . . . As the disease is infectious, and spreads rapidly, 74 CATTLE SHIPS all the sufferers by it are heroically treated. Some I saw were so weak that they could hardly stand. Some of the men in charge, who are paid a per- centage on the number of cattle they bring alive into Deptford, tortured the animals most fiendishly into a semblance of animation. Their cruelty called forth a cry of horror from many of the passengers who witnessed it, and they subsequently held an indignation meeting.
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