PART V. 
Infective Diseases. 
:/ CHAPTER I. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
Contagious diseases are not only communicable directly from 
one animal to another, but may be indirectly so by the poison 
(virus) being carried by attendants or their clothes, contaminated 
fodder, or in water presented in utensils to which sick animals have 
had access. Dogs, etc., should not be kept in elephant camps. It 
is as well to remember these points. 
2. It should be a rule to treat all newly purchased animals as 
having been exposed to contagion. They with their attendants 
should be kept quite separate for at least a fortnight. The animals 
should be inspected certainly once, if not twice a day. Any case of 
sickness should be forthwith isolated, the healthy animals divided 
into small groups and kept well apart. A strict watch should be kept. 
3. At all times it is advisable to segregate any case of fever 
and keep it so until proof is afforded that the disease is non-infective. 
4. In case of a disease being contagious the most important 
step is without delay to separate the sick with their attendants, gear, 
utensils, etc., from the healthy. Divide the healthy into small 
batches, picket them well apart and to windward of the sick camp. 
Take the temperature of the healthy animals twice a day, by this 
means any fresh cases will be detected in the earliest stage of disease 
and they can be removed to the sick camp at once, thus to a great 
extent arresting the further spread of disease. If this very necessary 
aid to detecting cases early be adopted, it will as a rule be found 
that the disease is confined to one or two groups and can be 
effectively dealt with. 
5. With regard to the isolated area set apart for the sick 
camp this should, when possible, be near a stream and situated well 
below all other camps. The attendants and their sick animals should 
not be permitted to leave it. Forage, if it has to be brought, should 
be carried to the edge of the sick camp and then removed by 
attendants in the isolated area. One of the first duties should be to 
