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from diseased animals need not be scoured with the soda or soap solution, but 

 may be cleaned by thoroughly spraying with hot soda or soap solution or with 

 hot water. Where hot soda or soap solution or hot water cannot be ob- 

 tained in sufBcient amount, water under strong pressure from a water sup- 

 ply pipe or from a fire hose, garden hose or some similar arrangement may be 

 used, if in the judgment of the official veterinarian it will answer the purpose. 



9. The manure and other dirt removed in cleaning, the straw, feed 

 residue and other substances (see Nos. 1 to 7), blood, stomach and intestinal 

 contents and other offal from slaughtered, dead and diseased or suspected 

 animals are to be collected together upon the infected premises. In cases where 

 the collection of the manure upon the infected premises is impossible or 

 undesirable it may, with official veterinary approval and with proper care, 

 be collected in a suitable place outside of the infected premises. 



The soiled water from cleaning is to be collected in the manure pit or in 

 some other general container on the infected premises. 



10. When the manure and other dirt, the straw, feed residue, etc., removed 

 in cleaning, and the dirty fluids from cleaning, cannot be collected on the 

 infected premises or in another suitable place without danger of spreading 

 the infection, then, if it is necessary to render those materials harmless, a 

 preliminary disinfection must precede the cleaning, a suitable disinfection 

 fluid being apphed (§ 11 and §§ 15 to 27). In these cases, care should be taken 

 that the manure and other dirt, straw, feed residue, dirty water, etc., are not 

 placed even temporarily, before the final disinfection, in locations where the 

 contaminated water may drain into other premises, where the materials 

 are accessible to strange persons or animals, or where the fluids can flow into 

 springs, water courses or other sources of water supply. 



A disinfection is also to precede cleaning when there is danger that the 

 persons doing the cleaning may be infected without previous disinfection, as 

 in anthrax and glanders (§§ 15, 18). 



§ 6. (Subdivision 1.) Utensils, clothing, and other objects are to be 

 treated in the following manner: 



1. Combustible articles of little value are to be burned. 



2. Wood stable and driving equipment (feed boxes, buckets, brooms, 

 forks, shovels, etc., feed carts, wagons, sledges, harness parts, wood shoes, 

 etc.) are to be thoroughly scoured with hot soda or soap solution. 



3. Utensils of iron and other metals (chains, rings, forks, shovels, curry- 

 combs, bits, muzzles, troughs, other feeding and watering vessels and other 

 vessels^ cages, etc.) are, in so far as they cannot be disinfected by fire (part III), 

 to be thoroughly cleaned and then washed with hot water. 



4. Leather and rubber articles (halters, girths, bridles, draught harness, 

 saddles, straps, cushion covers, leather shoes, dog collars, whips, etc.) are to 

 be scrubbed with soap and water. 



