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and roads); the places used to store manure, cadavers and cadaver parts; 

 the watering trough and its surroundings; harness; wagon poles; utensils 

 used in attending to the diseased or suspected animals (watering buckets, 

 milk pails, milk stools, milk cans, manure forks, shovels, etc.); feed Backs; 

 skin, horns, claws, wool and other animal products which may be infected 

 either because of their origin or place of storage, and the clothing and foot- 

 gear of the attendants are to be cleaned and disinfected. Special attention is 

 to be given to objects which have been contaminated with saliva or manure 

 from diseased or suspected animals. Skin, horns, claws and other raw animal 

 products are to be disinfected by complete drying or by immersion for 24 

 hours in dilute milk of lime or through treatment with other disinfectants. 

 Wool may be removed from the infected premises if it is packed in closed 

 Backs. 



6. Feed and straw which have been stored in infected stables or which 

 have been otherwise contaminated by the eliminations from diseased or 

 suspected animals cannot be removed from the infected premises but must 

 be used there or rendered harmless. 



7. At the final disinfection, the claws of cattle from the infected stable 

 are to be trimmed and the animals are to be cleaned and disinfected (§ 4 and 

 § 14, subdivision 1, No. 1). 



8. Finally, at the final disinfection all of the attendants employed on the 

 premises which were infected and all persons who otherwise came in contact 

 with diseased or suspected animals are to clean and disinfect the hands and 

 arms and any other parts of the body which may have come in contact with 

 the animals. 



9. Any of the disinfectants named in § 11, subdivision 1, may be used. 



Lung Plague 



§ 20. 1. The attendants who have cared for diseased or suspected animals, 

 persons who have been engaged in the slaughter or transportation of such 

 animals, and other persons who have come in contact with diseased or sus- 

 pected animals or who visit stables in which such animals are kept, must, 

 before leaving the infected premises or slaughter place, change the clothing 

 and foot-gear or clean and disinfect the same, and must also clean and dis- 

 infect the hands and the other parts of the body which may have come in 

 contact with the diseased animals. 



2. During the prevalence of the disease on infected premises, in case of 

 the removal of a diseased or suspected animal from its stall or from the stable, 

 the stall and its fittings and the utensils used in caring for the animal must 

 be at once cleaned, and disinfected in accordance with the directions in § 13. 

 Feed residue contaminated by the expired air of the animal must be burned 

 or treated in the same manner as the manure and bedding. 



