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Show CLEAN CARS PREVENT SPREAD OF DISEASES Disinfection Is Considered to Be Important Factor. Bureau of Animal Industry Co-operates With Various States by Having Its Officers Supervise Work of Cleansing. The cleaning and disinfection of railroad rail-road stock cars is considered to be a very important factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases of live stock. In connection with federal control over the interstate transportation transporta-tion of live stock, administered by the bureau of animal Industry. It Is required re-quired that all such cars or other vehicles ve-hicles which have contained animals affected w!t?i a communicable disease, such as tick fever, scabies of sheep and cattle, hog cholera, etc., be cleaned and disinfected under bureau supervision supervi-sion before being again used in Interstate Inter-state commerce. All live stock received at public stockyards or at official slaughtering establishments are inspected at the time they are received by employees of the bureau of animal Industry. If any animals are found to be affected with a communicable disease the carrier car-rier which brought them to their destination des-tination is at once notified to have the car or other vehicle set aside aud thoroughly thor-oughly cleaned. After that hi,.s been accomplished It is disinfected under the personal supervision of a federal employee. Various states also have regulations requiring that cars must be cleaned and disinfected before being used In the transportation of certain classes of live stock. The bureau of animal industry in-dustry co-operates with such states by having its employees at central markets mar-kets supervise the cleaning and disinfection disin-fection of cars in compliance with the requirements of the state to which any stock may be destined. An idea of the magnitude of this work may be gathered from the fact that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, bureau employees personally supervised the disinfection of 44.S43 cars. In addition a large number of motor trucks were bandied In the same manner. |