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DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS. Causes and prevention Leaky roof s Damaged 



gutters and rain pipes Absence of damp-proof courses Retaining walls 



Rain-damped walls Hollow walls. 

 RECONSTRUCTION OF INSANITARY BUILDINGS. General consideration Air-space 



- Ventilation and lighting Flooring Walls Drainage Manure pits 



Grain pits. 



SECTION VI. 



PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. 

 Pages 193-372. 



PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF DISEASE. Isolation Quarantine Notification 



Prophylaxis Cleansing and disinfection. 



DISINFECTION. Disinfectants Antiseptics Deodorants Fresh air 



Wind Sunlight Heat Electricity Disinfection by heat Dry 

 heat Moist heat Hot water Steam Superheated steam Steam 

 under increased pressure Steam under reduced pressure. 



CHEMICAL DISINFECTANTS. Perchloride of mercury Bleaching powder Lime 



Slaked lime Formaldehyde Tar Coal tar Carbolic acid Cresol 



Lysol Creolin Carbolic powders. 



FUMIGATION. Sulphurous acid gas Chlorine gas Formaldehyde The 



potassium permanganate method. 

 STANDARDISATION OF DISINFECTANTS. 

 DISINFECTION OF STABLES, COW-SHEDS, PIGGERIES, &c. Mange Strangles 



Influenza Pneumonia Swine fever Swine erysipelas Anthrax. 

 DISINFECTION OF HARNESS. 

 DISINFECTION OF DRAINS. 

 DISINFECTION OF CATTLE AND HORSE TRUCKS. 

 DISPOSAL OF CARCASES. Cremation Burial. 

 SPECIFIC DISEASES. Tuberculosis of cattle, pigs, horses, birds, sheep, cats and 



dogs Johne's disease Tetanus Anthrax Black Quarter 



Malignant oedema Epizootic lymphangitis Actinomycosis Ringworm 



Glanders Contagious abortion of cattle, sheep and horses Joint-Ill 

 White scour Influenza Contagious equine pneumonia Strangles 

 Purpura haemorrhagica Cattle plague Contagious bovine pleuro- 

 pneumonia Foot-and-Mouth disease Variola of sheep, cattle, horses and 

 swine Rabies Distemper of dogs and cats Stuttgart dog disease 

 Swine fever Contagious swine pneumonia Swine erysipelas Redwater 



Coccidiosis of rabbits, cattle, sheep and birds Malta fever Mammitis 

 - Milk fever Scrapie Braxy Louping-Ill Feline diphtheria - 



Haemoglobinuria Lymphangitis Grease, mud fever and cracked heels 

 Diabetes insipidus Fowl cholera Fowl plague Avian diphtheria 

 Epithelioma contagiosum Fowl typhoid Gapes. 

 PARASITES AND PARASITIC DISEASES. Taeniae Trematodes Nemathelminthes 



Stable fly House fly Warble fly Sheep nostril fly Sheep blow fly 



Sheep ked Horse bot fly Lice Fleas Ticks Mange, Sarcoptic, 

 psoroptic, symbiotic, demodectic and sheep-scab. 



FOOT-ROT OF SHEEP. 



