690 GENERAL THERAPEUTIC MEASURES 



Chlorinated lime and quicklime are good disinfectant 

 agents to mix with animal evacuations. In fact, bleaching 

 powder is probably the best and cheapest disinfectant we 

 possess for use in privies, drains, . sinks, cesspools, and 

 sewers, and for the destruction of micro-organisms on floors, 

 and in faeces and urine. 



A few pounds of this preparation may be thrown into 

 privies or cesspools once a week, and the pure compound, 

 or a saturated solution, may be scattered over floors or 

 mixed with manure. A 1 per cent, solution is used to dis- 

 infect harness, which should be washed and greased directly 

 afterwards. Stagnant and putrid water may be rendered 

 drinkable, after some hours, by the addition of 1 to 2 ounces 

 to each 65 gallons of water. Chlorinated lime is a powerful 

 deodorant as well as disinfectant, but is of no value in either 

 capacity unless the compound contains so much chlorine gas 

 that the face cannot be held near it without the production 

 of great irritation to the eyes. Bleaching powder should be 

 placed upon decomposing animal bodies, and sheets wet 

 with a saturated solution should be wrapped about the car- 

 casses of animals dead from contagious diseases, to prevent 

 infection during transportation. Disinfection by sulphurous 

 acid and chlorine gas is done to destroy germs which cannot 

 be reached by other metheds. Three pounds of sulphur and 

 two ounces of turpentine or alcohol (to afford moisture and 

 aid combustion) are needful for every 1000 cubic feet <*f air 

 space. Sulphur is generally burned in an iron vessel placed 

 on sand, or floating in a tub of water. If the building is 

 sufficiently tight to insure proper disinfection, it is difficult 

 to secure combustion of the proper amount of sulphur. To 

 obviate this, the sulphur may be saturated with turpentine, 

 ignited and placed in an iron kettle on a tripod over an alco- 

 hol lamp. Chlorine is disengaged from chlorinated lime, to 

 which is added sulphuric acid and water, each two parts. 

 Buildings must be tightly sealed and made completely irre- 

 spirable for animals during the space of three hours. Sul- 

 phurous acid disiufection is not of much value, and has 



