OACD Rules 18

Section 18 · Cleansing and disinfection of buildings, yards, etc. and destruction of infected matter or things found therein

(1)

(a)

Walls, roots, fittings, floors, doors, partitions and windows of permanent buildings shall be scraped free of adhering dirt and all scrappings, sweepings and other matter shall be effectively removed therefrom and from contact with animals and forthwith be burnt or thoroughly mixed with quick lime.

(b)

Disinfection should be carried out either by flaming with a blow lamp or scrubbing with one of the following prescribed disinfectants :

(i)mercury chloride-one in 1,000 watery solution;

(ii)carbolic acid-five per cent watery solution;

(iii)formaldehyde-one per cent watery solution;

(iv)phenyle solution in the proportion of one quart to ten gallons of water;

(v)fumigation with sulphurous acid gas by burning one lb of sulphur every 100 cubic feet and keeping the whole building tightly closed for at least twenty-four hours;

(vi)subsequently lime washing or repainting shall be done as ordered by the Inspector.

(2)

(a)

Temporary buildings shall be demolished and burnt or portions impossible to disinfect shall be demolished and burnt.

(b)

Wood work shall be flamed with blow lamp or washed with an approved disinfectant.

(c)

Kutcha floor shall be covered with quick lime fresh dug up to a depth of three inches and surface removed and buried. Quick lime shall be scattered again and the area filled in with fresh earth.

(d)

Paved yard shall be disinfected in the same way as permanent building floor and kutcha floor respectively.

(e)

Gates and fencing shall be scraped clean from adhering dirt, washed down with a prescribed disinfectant and lime washed or repainted or tarred.

(3)

Buckets and other metal articles shall be sterlized with blow lamp or a prescribed disinfectant. Harness blankets, brushes, etc. shall be sterilized by sulphurous acid gas or burnt at the discretion of the Inspector.

(4)

Standing floors, partitions, etc., shall be scraped free from adhering dirt, washed down with an approved disinfectant and limewashed or repainted.

(5)

(a)

Every horse-box, cattle-truck or vehicle used for the conveyance of animals shall, on every occasion, after an infective animal is taken out of it and before any other animal is placed therein, shall be rendered safe for use by cleansing and disinfection in the following :

(b)

The floors, sides and partitions and all other parts with which the droppings of the animal may have come in contact shall be thoroughly scraped and swept and all dung, fodder, litter, scrappings, sweepings and, other matter shall be effectively removed therefrom and from contact with animals and forthwith burnt or thoroughly mixed with quick lime.

(c)

The whole of the box area and fittings shall be thoroughly scrubbed with hot water and brush and then thoroughly soaked with phenyle solution in the proportion of one quart to ten gallons of water followed by a thorough sprinkling with lime wash to which five per cent of carbolic acid has been added.

(d)

The manger and parts of the box adjacent thereto shall be specially cleansed and disinfected.

Firstly, by scraping so that all dirt, dust or nasal discharge, adhering thereto is effectively removed ; secondly by scrubbing with a stiff brush and hot water; and thirdly by lime washing with freshly prepared lime-wash in the proportion of one mound of fresh lime to twenty gallons of clean water to which five per cent of carbolic acid has been added.

(e)

Before such disinfected wagons are occupied by other animals it is necessary to brush off the dried lime-wash so that their eyes and nostrils are not affected.

(f)

On application to the Station Master of any Station Veterinary Officers shall forthwith be allowed to inspect any or all vehicles used for the conveyance of livestock which may at the time be standing at the station.

(g)

The administration of these several railways shall forward to the Directors, Veterinary Services in the State served by them a list of their stations at which the cleansing and disinfection of vehicles, under these rules, will ordinarily be carried out.

(6)

[ The cloths used by attendants or persons coming in contact with infective animals shall be boiled with 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent sodium carbonate solution for at least fifteen minutes and then washed thoroughly.] [Inserted vide Orissa Gazette Part-III dated, 26.8.1960.]

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