352 PRUSSIAN REGULATIONS FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 



" All slaughtering of the diseased or suspected animals, or the 

 sale or use of any parts of the same, the milk, flesh, or hair, is to be 

 forbidden. All those animals are to be considered as suspicious 

 which have been in relation with diseased ones within a period of 

 four days. The performance of surgical operations upon animals 

 diseased with anthrax, or in which the same is suspected, can only 

 be made by approved veterinarians, and after the diseased or sus- 

 pected animals have been carefully isolated. 



" The cadavers of anthrax-diseased animals, or of such as have 

 been killed, can only be opened by approved veterinarians, and 

 then only with the consent of the police. Skinning of the cadavers 

 is to be strictly forbidden. Until the cadavers have been thor- 

 oughly destroyed, they must be kept isolated and securely covered 

 with earth, straw, or some such material, and carefully guarded, so 

 that other animals, and especially flies and insects, can not come in 

 contact with them. 



" The regulations herein mentioned in the first part are not to 

 be applied to such animals as are subject to the control of the state 

 veterinary schools or academies, where they are kept for the pur- 

 poses of such institutions. 



" The cadavers are to be destroyed as quickly as possible, when 

 convenient by chemicals or by burning ; but, when this is not the 

 case, by deep burying, after the hide has been so cut as to destroy 

 its value. The flesh is to be spoiled by saturation with petroleum, 

 tar, or some such material. The place of burial is to be determined 

 by the local police. The cadavers can only be transported in closed 

 wagons, or so covered that no part of the body is exposed, and so 

 that no dropping of blood or excretions can take place. The burial- 

 places must be dug out so deep that at least six feet of earth lies 

 upon the cadavers. "When the latter are covered with lime, the 

 holes need be no deeper than to permit of three feet of earth cover- 

 ing the cadavers. The burial-places must be paved with stone, and 

 must remain in this condition for a period of three years ; where 

 this is impossible, they must be so inclosed that no animals can gain 

 access to them. During this time such places must not be used 

 either for agricultural or grazing purposes. These last regulations 

 have equal relation to wild animals which have perished or been 

 killed from anthrax. 



" Excrements, blood, and other refuse from animals diseased 

 with or which have died of anthrax, as well as the manure, hay, and 

 straw in their stalls, must be either burned or buried. "When the 

 disease acquires an enzootic extension, a weekly examination of the 



