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to land on our shores, they should be guaranteed by a veterinary 

 certificate as coming from a noninfected district, by a route free 

 of infection, they should be critically examined by an expert on 

 arrival, and if passed, should still with all clothing and utensils, 

 be subjected to thorough disinfection. The clothing of attendants 

 should be similarly dealt with. If importation is merely across a 

 frontier, a quarantine of 21 days followed by a disinfectant bath 

 should be enforced. 



If sheeppox has gained a footing in a flock in a new country, 

 the flock should be at once appraised and destroyed, and the place 

 thoroughly disinfected and shut up for three months. All cars, 

 ships, wharfs, landings, chutes, yards, buildings, parks, roads, 

 etc., used by them should be closed and thoroughly disinfected. 

 All flocks exposed to any .such place or thing should be placed in 

 strict quarantine for three weeks, under official veterinary super- 

 vision and disposed of, should they become affected. 



As an alternative each infected and su.spected flock should be 

 secluded in a well fenced place or shed from which all men except 

 the necessary attendants, all dogs and other mammals, including 

 vermin, all birds and as far as possible all flies are excluded. 

 They should be divided into small lots of 5 or 6 placed in separate 

 pens, their temperatures should be taken 3 or 4 times a day, and 

 any one showing a temperature of 104° or 105" F. should be 

 instantly removed to a separate pen, and destroyed a? soon as the 

 disease can be identified. In this way a diseased sheep can usually 

 be removed before it has infected its fellows, and at the worst the 

 infection will rarely spread beyond the 5 or 6 animals enclosed in 

 the pen where the first case appeared. It is well to sprinkle the 

 wool of all the flock with a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, 

 and the floor or ground with chloride of lime. The disea.sed car- 

 casses should be thoroughly sterilized by burning, boiling, or im- 

 mersion in strong acids, or they should be deeply buried, the in- 

 fected pen disinfected on each occasion, and the hands and clothes 

 of the attendants purified. 



Careful treatment in this way will usually cut short the disease 

 with the loss of those only that were already infected when the 

 outbreak was taken in hand, but it must be in the hands of men 

 who are at once experts and vigilant and trustworthy. The En- 

 glish invasion of 1862, under the direction of the late Professor 



