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4. The disinfection is to be carried out according to § 14 and the cleaning 

 is to be preceded by a preliminary disinfection. Any of the disinfectants 

 mentioned in § 11, subdivision 1, may be employed. Special attention must 

 be given to objects contaminated with nasal discharge, secretions from cutane- 

 ous ulcers, manure and urine from diseased or suspected animals. Manure, 

 straw, feed residue, etc., may be composted and the urine or other elimina- 

 tions from diseased or suspected animals treated with a disinfectant. 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease 



§ 19. 1. The attendants of diseased or suspected animals in infected 

 premises, persons who have engaged in the slaughter or transportation of 

 such animals or in the removal of the bedding or the plowing under of the 

 manure, and other persons who have come in contact with suspected or dis- 

 eased animals in infected premises or who have visited stables in which such 

 animals have been placed, must, before leaving, change or clean and disinfect 

 the clothing and foot-gear and also clean and disinfect the hands and other 

 parts of the body which may be contaminated. 



2. Utensils, vehicles, vessels and other articles which have come in con- 

 tact with diseased or suspected animals or their eliminations and which must 

 be used outside of the infected premises during the continuance of the disease 

 are to be cleaned and disinfected before being removed from the infected 

 premises. Milk cans which must be removed from the infected premises for 

 use outside during the prevalence of the disease are to be disinfected, after 

 being emptied, as directed in § 11, subdivision 1, Nos. 9 and 10. 



3. When manure is removed from infected stables it is to be composted 

 on the premises or in some other suitable place from which the infection can- 

 not spread (§ 14, subdivision 1, No. 1), or, if this is impracticable, concen- 

 trated milk of lime is to be poured over it before it is removed from the stable. 



4. Urine and manure from ruminants and swine can be removed from 

 premises during the prevalence of the disease only under the most pressing 

 circumstances and with the permission of the sanitary authorities. The 

 material must not be hauled with cattle from other premises. The liquid 

 manure must be removed in tight vessels and the wagons used to haul manure 

 which has not been composted must also be tight. If the material is hauled 

 over public roads and the roads cannot be closed while the hauUng continues, 

 then the manure is to be wet with concentrated milk of hme. Manure which 

 was not composted before removal is to be immediately plowed under or 

 composted. In the latter case, when the packing process is completed access 

 of ruminants and swine should be prevented. 



5. At the final disinfection, which is to be carried out as directed in § 11, 

 the places occupied by diseased or suspected animals (stables, yards, exercise 

 yards, bull stalls, breeding stalls, shoeing places, etc., stock pens, stock-yards 



