all surfaces contaminated with blood, including the knife, which 

 should be treated as hereafter described. 



Disinfection and Disposal of the Dead Animals. Burning is the 

 most d sirable means of carcass disposal, if thoroughly done. Car 

 H^ses may be placed upon iron bars, or railroad ties, above a trench. 

 When dry manure and straw are available in quantity sufficient to 

 completely cover the bodies the carcasses may be destroyed by the 

 use of a small amount of kindling to start the manure burning next 

 to the carcass. After this the fire should be smothered in dry manure 

 and the entire surface of the pile thoroughly wet by sprinkling it 

 with several pails of water. The mass will smolder without further 

 attention until the carcass is completely destroyed. This is usually 

 complete in eighteen hours. The use of crude or kerosene oil will 

 help start the fire. 



Whenever it is impossible to burn the carcasses properly they 

 should be buried in graves at least seven feet deep. In the eastern 

 and southern states, where it is not difficult to dig a grave at any time 

 of the year, burial of anthrax carcasses is advised. This method of 

 disposing of anthrax carcasses is preferred by many live stock sani- 

 tarians. Plugging the body openings (nostrils, mouth, rectum, 

 vagina and sheath) with cotton soaked in strong disinfectant, prefer- 

 ably formalin in 10 per cent solution, before burial is suggested by 

 some as an additional guard against infection of land. 



All ground contaminated by blood or bloody discharges and the 

 ground upon which the animals died must be burned over with crude 

 oil or other fuel. Knives, clothing or other objects that can not be 

 burned may be disinfected by soaking in full strength disinfectants. 

 The better grade of coal tar disinfectants or so-called "carbolic" dips 

 are recommended for this purpose. After soaking in disinfectant 

 at least an hour the knives may be washed and boiled. If the hands 

 become contaminated dependence should not be placed entirely in dis- 

 infectants, but they should be first thoroughly washed with soap and 

 hot water and then with a 1 :500 solution of bichloride of mercury or 

 other equally strong disinfectant. 



All standard veterinary authorities agree that in suspected anthrax 

 a post mortem examination should not be made. In England the law 

 prohibits the opening of a suspected carcass even by a veterinarian. 



In order to protect the live stock of a community carcasses should 

 not be permitted to remain unburned or above ground very long. 

 This precaution is especially necessary in order to lessen the danger 

 of spreading the infection through dogs, cats, buzzards, and other 

 carrion animals by opening the carcass and carrying pieces of infected 

 meat to other fields. 



