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In country districts the carcasses should be buried, as it is generally
impracticable to dispose of them in any other way. In city districts the
animals may be taken to a slaughterhouse, with such precautions as are
possible to prevent dissemination of the contagion. The animals should be
slaughtered under the supervision of an inspector. The healthy carcasses
may be utilized for food, but the blood, entrails, and all diseased
carcasses should be heated to a temperature equal to that of boiling water
or above, and then used for the manufacture of fertilizers.

The disinfection of premises should be thorough and should be carried out
by a trained corps of men employed for the purpose. The floors of stables
should be removed, the accumulations removed from beneath them, the
contents of haylofts should be destroyed, and the woodwork and soil beneath
the stables should be thoroughly drenched with a solution of bichlorid of
mercury, 1 part to 2,000 of water. After the flooring is replaced the
woodwork should be coated with limewash, containing one-fourth pound of
chlorid of lime to the gallon of mixture.

Usually in these cases the owners are dependent upon their herd of cows for
a living, and consequently it is difficult or impossible to hold the
stables vacant for any considerable period. In a majority of instances
cattle may be admitted at once to stables so disinfected, without the
reappearance of the disease. Occasionally, however, it will reappear
without apparent cause. For this reason the inspection and other measures
must be maintained in the infected district for six months or a year after
the last case of disease has been disposed of.

Many people have objected to the slaughter of diseased and exposed animals
as an unscientific and expensive method of eradicating the disease. To
these it may be answered that it is the only method which has ever proved
successful, and that in the end it is much more economical than temporizing
measures.

Inoculation has been adopted in many countries, and has undoubtedly
lessened the death rate, but where this practice is allowed the disease is
kept up and spreads. For this reason it should be prohibited wherever there
is a possibility and disposition to eradicate the contagion.

RINDERPEST.

Rinderpest, also known as cattle plague, is an acute, infectious disease of
cattle, in which the digestive organs are mainly involved. Though unknown
in this country, the importa