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4. Ceilings and walls, fittings (mangers, troughs, pillars, posts, stalls, 

 doors, door posts, windows, etc.), floors, gutters, canals, troughs and pits 

 are to be whitewashed with dilute nulk of lime or calcium chloride solution 

 or brushed or thoroughly sprayed with dilute cresol water, carbo^c acid, 

 formaldehyde, corrosive sublimate or cresol-sulphuric acid solution. 



Iron parts are to be treated with dilute cresol water or with carbolic acid 

 solution. 



5. Impervious paving or floors in court yards, railroad stock pens, slaughter 

 houses, stock-yards, roads (streets), ships and ferries are to be washed or 

 sprayed in a suitable manner with dilute milk of lime or calcium chloride 

 solution or other disinfectants (§§ 15 to 27). In cold weather the pavements 

 are washed with cresol-sulphuric acid solution containing sodium chloride 

 or are sprinkled with powdered, freshly-slaked lime. 



The same process may be used for court yards, stock-yards, roads, streets 

 and farm stock pens which have a paving that is pervious or which are unpaved. 



6. Earth and sand floors which are not moistened with the excretions of 

 diseased or suspected animals, including earth and sand under floors removed 

 according to § 5, 4 to 7, and the manure piles in sheep and cattle stables which 

 are not removed in cleaning are to be sprayed with concentrated milk of lime 

 or sprinkled with freshly slaked lime until the ground and manure are covered 

 with a thick layer of lime. 



7. Wood utensils, including vehicles and sleds used to haul cadavers, 

 cadaver parts, straw, manure and the contents of the stomach and intestines 

 of animals which have been killed or slaughtered, are, in so far as they cannot 

 be burned, to be singed, or washed with dilute cresol water, carbolic acid, 

 formaldehyde, cresol-sulphuric acid or corrosive sublimate solution. 



8. Utensils of iron and other metals are to be exposed to the action of 

 fire for a short time or washed with dilute cresol water, carbolic acid or for- 

 maldehyde solution. 



9. Articles of leather, especially foot-gear, and rubber are to be carefully 

 and repeatedly wiped with cloths which have been saturated with cresol water, 

 carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate solution. 



10. Linen, hemp (jute), cotton and woolen articles, clothing and bed 

 covers, hair, wool, feathers, feed sacks, cushion stuffing, etc., which cannot 

 be burned, or which are not required to be disposed of in another manner in 

 certain diseases (see §§ 15 to 27), are to be laid for 24 hours in dilute cresol 

 water, carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, or formaldehyde solution, or dis- 

 infected by boiling or in a steam apparatus. 



Pieces of clothing which are only slightly soiled may be disinfected by 

 moistening and scrubbing with dilute cresol water, carbolic acid, corrosive 

 subUmate or formaldehyde solution. 



11. Animals are to be washed with a proper disinfectant (see §§ 15 to 27), 



