52 ‘CANINE DISTEMPER 
1. The dog should have no direct or indirect contact 
with any other of its species. 
2. Exercise should be taken alone on ground used by 
no other dog, and no opportunity should be afforded 
for sniffing at other dogs through railings, gates, or 
windows, etc. 
3. The attendant should not have charge of any other 
dogs, or, if this is impracticable, he should, before dis- 
charging his duties to them, cover his clothing and boots 
with overalls and goloshes, and should wash his hands 
frequently with disinfecting fluid. 
4. No other person should visit the dog for fear of 
conveying infection from the suspected dog in isolation 
to other healthy animals. 
5. Food and water utensils, brooms, and all other 
articles should be strictly confined to the isolation 
kennel, and not mixed with others or washed in the 
same water with others, nor used indiscriminately for 
other animals. 
6. Soiled bedding, sawdust, and excreta should be 
removed and burned, or placed where no other dog can 
have access to it. 
7. Frequent disinfection should be observed. 
Dog Bureaux.—To purchase a dog from the average 
dog bureau is really courting trouble, since no shop can 
truthfully be declared as free from infection. Any 
place at which fresh dogs are continually arriving is 
bound to be contaminated sooner or later, in spite of 
the most rigorous hygienic measures; and where the 
management is in the least apathetic or careless, the evil 
grows in proportion. In course of practice it is my duty 
to inspect daily certain establishments of this kind, and 
although the greatest vigilance is exercised, there are 
discovered occasionally dogs which are manifesting 
signs of the malady, necessitating their instant removal 
