PRACTICAL STERILIZATION AND DISINFECTION 155 



Stock Car^. —The method described for stables is appHcable 

 here. 



Animals, large and small, may have the coat and surface 

 of the body disinfected by washing with 1 to 1000 bichloride 

 or strong hot soapsuds to which carbolic acid has been added 

 to make a 5 per cent solution; they should then be given a 

 good warm bath. 



Frequently time and money are sa\'ed by a combination 

 of steam and formaldehyde disinfection. This is a regular 

 practice in municipal and quarantine disinfection (Fig. 108). 



Fig. 108. — Chamber in actual use at gu\ erument quarantine station for 

 disinfecting baggage and dunnage with steam or formaldehyde or both. 

 The small cylinder at the side is the steam formaldehyde generator. 



Persons engaged in disinfection work should wear rubber 

 boots, coats and caps which should be washed in a disinfec- 

 tant solution and the change to ordinary clothing made in 

 a special room so that no infective material will be taken 

 away. 



