Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.

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Surgeon. When circumstances allow of it, the places should also be aired for
8 days after the disinfection has taken place.
Cleansing shall be effected by thoroughly washing the infected place or
objects with warm water and soap or lye, by means of a brush or broom.
After the objects have dried, they shall be rewashed with a disinfecting medium
consisting of 4 portions of crude carbolic acid, 2 portions of crude muriatic or
sulphuric acid, and 94 parts of boiling water, or by but 4 portions of crude
muriatic or sulphuric acid, and 96 parts of water, or fresh solution of chloride
of lime (1 portion of chloride of lime to 10 parts of water), or 1 /2 (),/,, of solution
of corrosive sublimate (this latter being excessively poisonous ought only to be
used by Veterinarv Surgeons). The masonry must be powdered with ordinary
lime after disinfection has taken place.
Should the flooring at the place where the animal has been be old and
rotten, or if there are holes and crevices in it, it ought to be broken up, the
woodwork burnt, and after the packing under it has been dug out and renewed,
and disinfection taken place, new flooring may be laid down. If the floor in
the place is common earth, it must be dug up to at least the depth of the blade
of the spade, and filled in -with fresh earth.
Infected earth and packinps, !oust be treatod in n similar manner as the
offal of affected animals.
Iron articles are best cleansed by being heated red hot.
Milk, or its productions, must not be utilized from other animals than those
which, on the authority of the Veterinary So n, are entirely free from al)
signs of disease. Milk productions prepared from, or mixed Willi Milk from an
affected animal, or one suspected of being infected, must be destroyed.
As Anthrax is, according to ,,,`; 2 of the Law relative to Domestic Animals,
a disease subject to Ilie special attention of the Public Authorities, the owner
of animals attacked by this disease must at once call in a Veterinary Surgeon.
«Bråsot» («the blue sickness ») in the sheep,