ThisDayThatYear: THE BAIL-GHODA HOSPITAL

Friday December 10,2021 by Team Khaki

In 1883, Sir Dinshaw Manokjee Petit bought an estate in Parel and gifted the land to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to start an animal hospital. This day, 137 years ago, Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy of India, opened the Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals to the public.