THE NAPLES SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS.
[TO TUN EDITOU OF rut " SPECTATOR."] venture to ask you again to find room in your columns for an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the Protection of Animals. Its work has been carried on vigorously during the past year, as the following statistics will prove. Vehicles properly balanced or to which extra animals were attached, 53,876 ; vehicles from which persons were made to alight or of which the load was diminished, 53,366 ; confiscated sticks, stakes, whips, mattocks, &c., 40,934; relieved animals carried head downwards with legs tied together, 25,576 ; prosecu- tions for beating, kicking, wounding, stabbing, working with sores, overloading, ate., 5,251; dogs killed because injured, diseased, or homeless, 2,372.
I must add that the great amount of building which is going on all round Naples makes the work of our twenty inspectors more and more urgent, whilst their limited number is quite inadequate to the task before them. I will only trespass further on your space to say that we are hoping shortly to introduce Humane Education amongst the children in the schools, and therefore earnestly appeal for funds to enable us to carry on and still further extend our much-needed work. Subscriptions and donations will be thankfully received and promptly acknowledged by Mr. Percy Carew Essex (Hon. Secretary and Treasurer in England), 26 Charles Street, St. James's, London, S.W., by Mr. C. Calvello (Director), 8 Via Vittoria, Naples, or by myself.—I am, Sir, &c., E. L M. (Princess) MxLE BASESE
7 Chiatamone, Naples. (nee Mackworth-Praed),
President of the Naples Society for the Protection of Animals.
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