Quarantine 29 
ing places or feed-boxes. The sick animals should be 
separated from the others by some distance, and their lo- 
cation be such that the drainage is away from the healthy 
animals. Affected animals should not be allowed access 
to streams, as the infection may be carried by the water. 
Some diseases are carried from sick to healthy ani- 
mals by means of flies, lice, ticks, and possibly other 
insects. Dogs, foxes, buzzards and other animals that 
feed on flesh are liable to convey diseases from place to 
place. Persons are very liable to earry the infection on 
their feet after walking on infected ground or other 
material. When sick animals are confined in buildings 
it is possible to protect them from insects, so that 
this source of danger is eliminated. Should other cases 
of the disease occur among animals that have been 
‘removed from the sick, the healthy animals should 
again be separated from the sick and removed to other 
non-infected quarters. Harness, saddles, blankets, 
utensils, ete., that have been used on or about animals, 
should be boiled or otherwise disinfected before being 
used about healthy animals. 
When animals have been quarantined, a separate 
attendant should be secured to care for the sick ones. 
If this is not possible, the attendant should care for 
the healthy animals first, and after caring for the sick 
should provide himself with a change of clothing. In 
handling contagious diseases, precautions should always 
be taken that the attendant does not himself become 
infected; for some diseases, among them glanders, an- 
thrax, probably tuberculosis and some parasitic diseases, 
may be communicated from animals to man. 
