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THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



Disinfecting 

 the living and 

 the tables. 



2. Hospital 

 shed. 



Situation of. 



3. Preventing 

 of diffusion of 

 fteces. 



out the stable or shed, disinfect the whole of it and 

 all apparatus, also all the animals, and only to let the 

 animals enter the shed, &c. again, after it is com- 

 pletely sweet and dry. 



2. If, however, a proprietor is desirous of keeping 

 a sick animal because its illness does not appear severe 

 or fatal, he should place it in a separate shed, which 

 must not be the same as or near to the quarantine 

 shed, and be distant from all healthy animals, and so 

 situated that the prevailing wind does not blow from 

 this hospital shed towards the healthy or quaran- 

 tine shed. The water should also not flow from 

 this hospital shed towards the others, or the yard, 

 or any meadow, but should be carefully drained 

 away and sent off the premises by a special 

 sink. 



3. To prevent the scattering of fasces by infected 

 animals (and also by suspected animals and all animals 

 suffering from diarrhoea), their tails should be so tied 

 to one or other of their horns as to protect them 

 against being soiled by the intestinal discharges, and 

 to prevent them from distributing such discharges by 

 the ceaseless motions peculiar to these organs. The 

 spattering of fasces should be prevented by a copious 

 supply of rough straw, with some sand, sawdust, or 

 ashes placed behind and underneath the animal. The 

 straw and faeces should be dealt with as has been de- 

 scribed. Animals affected with plague or diarrhoea 

 should not be led along streets, highroads, and paths, 

 as they would be certain to drop infectious fasces, 

 which would then be distributed over the entire 

 length of these roads by the feet of men and animals, 

 and the wheels of vehicles. 



