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    On a March 17, 2021 episode of the ITV show DNA Journey, it was revealed to Amanda Holden - a British actress - that her ancestor, Thomas Scorobio, had been the manager of the Battersea Dog and Cat home in the 1870s. According to an article about the show "Amanda’s ancestor was revealed to be Thomas Scoborio, who also had connections with the RSPCA, and then went on to Battersea. In 1877 he was appointed Battersea’s first chief executive." The revelation brought Amanda to tears because she has been a ambassador to the home for several years and she didn't know that she had an early family connection to the same place. You can scroll down to read a couple of excerpts from books that include Thomas' involvement with animal safety.
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Thomas Scoborio, related to modern British actress Amanda Holden, was born in the 1800s in England. Both he, as general manager, and she, as an ambassador, are connected with the Battersea Dog and Cat home.
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1883 advertisement about the treatment of dogs and cats.
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Mr. Thomas Scoborio, Manager of the Dog’s Home
We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Thomas Scoborio, the manager of the Dog’s Home,
for some details as to the statistics and management of the Home, which cannot fail to be of
interest. The large dogs are fed twice a day upon Spratt’s Patent Dog Biscuits and boiled tripe ;
the smaller varieties getting stewed beast’s heads and boiled rice, and crushed Spratt’s biscuits; the
puppies, in addition, being supplied with milk. The kennels and yards are washed out daily during
the summer months with a solution of “ Heal’s Creosoted Carbolic Soap,” which Mr. Scoborio has
found by experience an excellent disinfectant and destroyer of vermin. The average number
of dogs received per week is about six hundred, and the worthless ones are detained in the
Home three days before they are destroyed by poison. The more valuable specimens are kept
until claimed by their owners, or disposed of by sale, which can be effected any time after they
have been three days in the Home. Each dog, on his arrival at the Home, has a collar with
a brass number on put round his neck, and his fate is recorded in a book kept for the purpose,
so that he can be traced if necessary. The average quantity of biscuits used per week is ten
hundredweight, and of flesh about eight hundredweight ; the cost of food of all sorts amounting
to nearly £15 a week, and the other expenses to at least as much more. It will be thus
seen that the Dog’s Home incurs heavy expenses, and it cannot recoup much from the sale of
dogs, the minimum price asked being five shillings. The cost of the freehold was ,£1,500, and
the erection of the kennels and paving the yards came to nearly £"2,500.
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MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN: RABIES IN BRITAIN, 1830-2000
The claim that rabies was epizootic across the country was challenged in 1877 by Thomas Scorobio, the manager of the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs. He reported that there had been no cases of rabies in strays collected since in 1870, the year from which the Home received all stray dogs collected by the police. He stressed just how many times he and his colleagues had been bitten and that none had developed hydrophobia, though elsewhere he detailed the disinfection treatment he used for all dog bites. The Annual Reports explained how the Home isolated many dogs suspected of rabies, but almost everyone had recovered. There was an exception in 1878, when 4780 dogs were brought in and one died of rabies, and that a few hours after its arrival. Scoborio blamed public hysteria for the high profile of rabies, claiming that the people were easily alarmed when they saw a convulsing dog in the street. [The poor brute is consequently driven up one street and down another at his utmost speed, kicked, stoned, terrorised and maddened into fury, until he bites someone obstructing or pursuing him, whereupon without further evidence he is pronounced to be mad. Scenes like these are taking place in London perhaps hourly during the current panic.
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