Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
_Disinfection._ All litter, fodder, manure, urine, and other excretions,
or products; all stalls, feeding troughs, sheepfolds, covers, halters,
harness, wagons, poles, shafts, and other objects used about the
animals, or soiled by them or their products, should be disinfected by
burning, flaming or scalding (boiling), when applicable, by one of the
above-named disinfectants, by mercuric chloride (5:1000), by formalin,
or other potent antiseptic. Extensive dung heaps, too wet to burn, may
be sprinkled freely with strong mineral acids, or mercuric chloride in
solution, piled into compact mass, covered with chloride of lime, and
finally with a thick layer of earth, and fenced in from all stock.
If carcasses must be moved to the grave, rendering works, or elsewhere,
they should be sponged with carbolic acid solution, formalin, or
mercuric chloride, and each of the natural openings firmly plugged with
tow or cotton soaked in the same material, so that no infecting material
may drop on the way. They should on no account be dragged on the ground,
but carried on a wagon or stone boat, which should be afterward
carefully disinfected. Men or animals, entering an infected place,
should be disinfected on leaving; especially hands and feet.
All roads, yards, and pastures where the sick have been, and, above all,
where manure, urine, or saliva has fallen, should be subjected to
thorough disinfection, or the surface layer removed and deeply buried.
Where available, a concrete or asphalt floor should be placed in the
buildings.
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