The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-10
CHARLTON SITUATION IN
JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH
Continued from page one)

ease, every precaution should be taken
to prevent the germs from getting into
and upon the ground.
Running streams Of water are also
another means of spreading the germs
from one place to another, Animals Suf.
ferlng from Charlton should not be wa.
tered or allowed ito walk In running
streams; and, above all else, the carcass
of an animal dead of Charlton should not
be thrown into a stream, as a means OF
dispoSiug of the carcass.
Aside from the danger of direct infec.
ton to animals pasturing on infected a.
reas, there exists the added danger of
incubation through the agency Of hay
or other crops that have been grown
upon infected fields. The process OF dry.
ing or curing the hay or other forage
does not lessen this danger, for drying
favorS the development of the spores
tseed germs), and these mingling with
the dust and particles of dried forage
may be taken up by the wind and blown
about from one field to another, or may
cause serious damage simply by being
eaten by susceptible animals.
Another very important and very
common way in which the disease is
spread into epidemic proportions is by
the bite of the various kinds OF biting
horseefes. ut is very importat, there.
fore, that some means be employed for
decreasing the number of horsefieS If
we are to check the spread of Charlton
during the spring, summer and fall.
Charbon is very serious disease, to
animals especially, when occurring in
dairy herd, at which time it is proba.
bly, communicable to man, who may be.
come injected by using the milk. 1t has
not been definitely proven that the char
bon germs are given of in the milk
from infected COWS; however stable fleS
do carry the germs on their feet and
mouth parts, and it is a very common
occurrence around dairies for flies to
fall bodily into milk buckets and cans
Hence, because of this possibility OF in
lection in man, though a latent one
and especially on account of the viru
lence of this disease and the suddenness
of the attack, measures should be a
dopted to prohibit the use for any pur
pose of milk from any cows in dairy
, where Charlton exists. Such milk SHOULD
, be ordered destroyed Immediately aftel
milking, and until such time as the dis
ease has abated.
! FORMS OF THE DISEASE.
II The disease NAV aDDear in one q
) three forms: ~ Apoplectic, (2) acute
(3) sub.acute.
~ The apoplectic form is most fire
0 quently seen attacking cattle or Shee]
5 at the beginning of an outbreak befor
} the animals in the vicinity have devel
0 oped any degree of natural immunity t
: the infection. In this form the anima
2 presents symptoms of bralapoplex,
They reel and fall, bloody liquid flow
0 from the body openings, snd death 500
q follows, If the body is opened and scare
S is made for evidence of the disease,
2 may be impossible to detect any def
o mite signs or any change in the tissue
u or organs, az
O (2) The acute form of the disease d.
q velops more slowly, but becomes we
o established in twelve to twenty.fou
% hours after the first symptoms are NJ
% tieed, In these cases the fever is usual
: intense tlO4 to 107 degrees FL. The al
% imal is greatly Frustrated The cerebrs
congestion causes heexcitement, whic
IS is followefby drowsineSS and staggel
g ing gate. There is frequent passage {
q bloody urine, followed usually by cor
: VulSi0nS and death. In this type of fh
q disease, aSWell as in the ap0plectic forr
t post.mortem examination Of the cal