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is completed tlicy must be subjected to disinfection. Horses or men 

 must be used for the removal of the cadavers, and the conveyance 

 used for this purpose must be thorougldy cleansed and disinfected. 

 The animals removed must be so placed upon tlie vehicles that no 

 part of them can touch the ground, or any blood, hair, etc., drop 

 from them upon it on the way to the burying-place. The hides of 

 the slauglitered animals must be so cut as to destroy their value, 

 and the cadavers saturated in crude petroleum or carbolic-acid solu- 

 tion. 



"■ A stable in which diseased animals have lived must be at once 

 thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. The manure is to be burned, 

 or saturated with disinfectants. Nothing in the stable is to be re- 

 moved from it." 



Regulations after the Pest has come to an End. 



" The pest may be considered ended in any locality when all the 

 cattle have been killed, or are dead, or when three weeks have 

 elapsed since the last case of death, or slaughtering of diseased ani- 

 mals, or such as liave cohabited with them, and when the thorough 

 disinfection of the infested stables has taken place. 



" The disinfection must be begun and executed according to the 

 circumstances, so soon as all the animals have been removed. It 

 must also take place if all the animals have been killed, though not 

 a single case of pest has been found among them. 



" The disinfection can only take place upon official notice, and 

 under the supervision of the proper officers. The disinfection be- 

 gins with again opening the stable, which must take place within 

 twenty-four hours after the removal of the animals, and care must 

 be taken to give the air the freest possible circulation. The manure 

 is to be carried out and burned, or taken to places where no cattle 

 can gain access within the next three months, and deeply buried. 

 The tluids in the drains, or yards, are to be disinfected with sulphu- 

 ric acid and chloride of lime, and then led into deep holes and cov- 

 ered up. The surface of the plastering upon the walls is to be 

 scraped off; the walls must then be whitewashed. The wood-work 

 is to be washed with liot potash-water, and, in a few days, washed 

 with chloride-of-lime solution. The floor is to be taken out and re- 

 placed ; if of earth, dug out one foot deep and replaced with fresh 

 earth ; if of pavement, replaced with new, or the old must be com- 

 pletely cleansed and disinfected. "Wooden floors must be taken out 

 and burned, or thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. The cribs, 

 utensils, etc., must be cleansed and disinfected. After all this has 



