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especially when in places in which the skin and hoofs or claws may have been 

 soiled with manure or other excretions. 



12. Hands and other parts of persons are to be thoroughly brushed with 

 dilute cresol water, carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate solution and after 

 about five minutes washed with warm water and soap. 



(Subdivision 2.) The government may permit deviations from the proc- 

 esses described in Nos. 1 to 12. 



IV. Methods Prescribed for the Different Diseases 

 Anthrax 



§ 15. 1. Persons who have come in contact with the bloody excretions 

 from an infected or suspected animal, or who have assisted in bloody opera- 

 tions on such animals or in the slaughtering or destruction of the same, or 

 who have assisted in the opening or removal of the cadavers, shall immediately, 

 wash and disinfect thoroughly the hands and other parts of the body which 

 may have been soiled, also soiled clothing and foot-gear. 



2. As soon as an infected or suspected animal dies, is killed, recovers or 

 is removed from its stall, the cleaning and disinfection must be immediately 

 begun. This must include the stall in which the animal stood, the place where 

 it died or was killed, and, where the disease is of frequent occurrence, certain 

 parts of the stable or the entire stable, as the official veterinarian may in his 

 judgment determine; also floors, walls, posts, pillars, stall divisions, mangers, 

 racks, troughs, etc., stable and slaughtering utensils, clothing and foot-gear 

 of the attendants and other objects which are contaminated with eliminations, 

 blood or ofTal of infected or suspected animals or which may be assumed to be 

 otherwise infected with the organisms of anthrax; stored feed or straw which 

 diseased or suspected animals may have come in contact with or which may be 

 assumed to have been otherwise infected; vehicles and vessels used to remove 

 cadavers or parts of the same, offal, manure, etc., and, when necessary, con- 

 taminated places in the pasture, burial and storage places and water troughs. 



3. The disinfection is carried out as directed in § 14 and the cleaning is 

 preceded by a preliminary disinfection (see § 5, No. 10; § 6, subdivision 2). 

 As disinfectants, calcium chloride, dilute and concentrated calcium chloride 

 solutions, corrosive sublimate or formaldehyde solutions are to be used. 

 Special attention should be given to the solids and fluids liberated in killing, 

 especially the bloody eliminations from diseased or suspected animals and 

 their cadavers and blood. This material, together with the bedding, feed 

 residue, manure, the earth removed from unpaved floors and articles of little 

 value, is to be disposed of like the cadavers (see the directions for the harmless 

 removal of the cadavers). Liquid manure contaminated with blood or bloody 

 eliminations from diseased or suspected animals is to be disinfected with 

 calcium chloride or solution of calcium chloride (§ 14, subdivision 1, No. 2). 



