Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.

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The Piggery ought to be cleansed in the following manner. After removing
and burning or burying all litter, all worthless woodwork with which the sick
animal has been in contact ought to be burnt Wooden flooring ought to be torn up
and burnt. The packing beneath it should be carted away and ploughed down on
some spot not frequented by pigs. If the flooring was of concrete it ought to
be thoroughly washed and thereafter disinfected. The entire piggery and sty
or sties ought also to be disinfected. Articles employed in connection with
the animal ought to be washed in boiling water and disinfected. The earth
around the piggery ought to be dug up and carted away.
For disinfecting purposes a mixture ought to be used consisting of 4 p.c.
crude carbolic acid and 2 p.c. crude muriatie acid. Articles that cannot
withstand muriatie acid, may be boiled or disinfected with solution of chloride
of lime ç.1_0 p.c.) or solution of carbolic acid (5 p.c.) or a solution or corrosive
sublimate A. per thousand). This latter is excessively poisonous and ought only
to be employed by Veterinary Surgeons.
After disinfection has taken place the piggery ought to be thoroughly
aired and thereafter, if needful, be whitewashed anew.
The Veterinary Surgeon shall at once report to the Public Authorities
concerned, and to the Chief Surgeon of the Civil Veterinary Department in
Christiania, all cases of Swine fever which may corne under his notice.