VETERINARY HYGIENE AND SANITATK'N. 
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may remain round the neighborhood of the grave and cause fur¬ 
ther trouble, which can be absolutely avoided by the heat pro¬ 
duced in the process of cremation. 
Those who attend on the sick animals should not be allowed 
in the neighborhood of the healthy stock, without, at least, 
making a complete change of clothing. Infection can be, and 
no doubt often is, carried through neglect of this sanitary ob¬ 
servance. 
All the surroundings of the diseased animal should be sub¬ 
jected to the strictest disinfection. In fact there is no sanitary 
detail, however frivolous it may appear, that should net receive 
the greatest attention if we expect to make a complete removal 
of the disease. 
There is another point with regard to the removal of char- 
bonons carcasses, which demands the most careful attention. 
We allude to the too common custom of hauling them out to 
some fence corner and there leaving them exposed. This is one 
of, if not the surest means of spreading the disease far and wide 
all over the country. How, it might be inquired, is this to be 
accounted for? In the simplest manner possible! The body 
being newly dead, is a mass of living charbon organisms. Gases 
arising as the product of decomposition, force blood and other 
fluids through the natural openings on to the ground, which 
becomes infected with spores, the grass or herbage also shares 
in the infection, and when grazed over by other animals, they 
in turn contract the disease. Dogs, foxes, or hogs, devour the 
charbonous flesh ; they also become diseased and become new 
centres of the malady. The buzzard and the carrion crow, 
although it is said that birds of prey are to some extent immune 
from contagious disease, trample over the charbonous blood and 
offal, while devouring the flesh, and may carry the contagion on 
their feet all over the country, infecting the pastures as they 
tread. Rains may wash the diseased discharges from the care¬ 
lessly exposed carcass into some running water which may be 
carried for miles, infecting the animals that drink it, or pastures 
which it may overflow, and communicate the disease to stock 
