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Anthrax. 



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careful enquiries as to the use for or about the animals of 

 manufactured feeding stuffs or bone or other artificial manures, 

 as such substances are known in some cases to have been the 

 media by which the disease has been introduced. The possi- 

 bility of infection being conveyed by the water which the 

 animals drink should not be overlooked. 



So soon as it has been decided that the disease is anthrax, or 

 where the veterinary inspector is not in a position to certify 

 that anthrax is not present, the owner should cause all cattle, 

 sheep or swine which have been in association with the diseased 

 or suspected animals, and are pronounced by the veterinary 

 mspector to be apparently healthy, to be removed from the shed, 

 or field or place where the disease has originated to some other 

 place on the farm or premises where they can be isolated and 

 kept under observation. The period of incubation of anthrax 

 is very short, and seven days will as a rule suffice to enable the 

 veterinary inspector to determine whether any of these animals 

 have become infected or not. 



Disposal of the Carcase. — Special attention should be given 

 to the disposal of the carcase of an animal dead of anthrax. 

 Cremation upon the spot where it died is, where possible, the 

 safest method of disposal. Information on this subject has been 

 issued by the Board. If it is necessary that the carcase be 

 moved to some convenient spot for the purpose of cremation, 

 the nostrils and all the natural openings should be carefully 

 plugged with hay or tow saturated with a strong solution of 

 carbolic acid in order to prevent the oozing of any blood there- 

 from. The dragging of the carcase along the ground is to be 

 avoided. Where burial is resorted to the grave should be dug 

 in some part of the farm remote from any water-course and to 

 which animals cannot or do not ordinarily have access, such as 

 a wood or enclosure. The method of burial is prescribed in the 

 Anthrax Order. 



The disinfection ot the place or premises where a diseased 

 animal has been detained or has died is then to be carried out 

 in the most thorough manner of which circumstances will admit. 

 All manure, or broken fodder remaining thereon should be 

 disinfected or destroyed by fire. 



General Observations. — It is important that it should be widely 



