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then repeatedly wetted with the solution, and after it 

 has had time to disinfect the entire surfaces of them, 

 they are washed clean and laid up, or hung up to dry. 



Workmen. r j;} ie W orkinoii, then, having finished the disinfection 



and flushing of all objects and surfaces, effect their own 



Disinfection of disinfection in the following manner: They wash 

 their boots most carefully with chloride of lime and 

 water, scraping the soles and scrubbing the seams 



Disinfection of where the soles join the upper leather. They wash 



workpeople's ' 



bodies, hands, their hands and arms, and by means of clean rags or 



&e. 



Changing and sponges they remove any splashes from their clothes. 

 clothes. l ' After this they go indoors, remove all clothes from 

 head to foot, wash their bodies, and particularly their 

 hands, faces, hair and feet, with plenty of soap and 

 water, and put on fresh clothes and linen. The clothes 

 and linen which they have taken off should be treated 

 as infected, set to soak immediately in boiling water 

 and afterwards disinfected, or in water containing two 

 ounces of chloride of lime to the gallon in solution, or 

 containing four ounces of Condy's red permanganate of 

 potash fluid in solution; or the clothes and linen. 

 should be put in a copper and boiled and subsequently 



Burning of washed. All articles of little value which are much 



articles of little MII 1111 i i i /? 



value. soiled should be burned on a bright nre. 



E - ^infection of Live Stock. I. Live cattle may 

 carry^nfectTon 7 in carr y infection in two ways : first, by being themselves 

 two modes. infected with the plague and reproducing the poison; 

 and secondly, by accidentally carrying the poison from 

 other animals in a dormant state upon some part of 

 their surface, their hair, and particularly their feet. 

 These latter animals may therefore infect others 

 without being or becoming themselves subjects of the 



