(3) Feed refuse food to animals or empty it into a pit dug for the purpose, and cover with a layer of earth from time to time.
(4) Throw slop water at a distance from the house and well, and plant stalky growths like sunflowers, which absorb the waste.
5. METHODS OF DISINFECTING
Where bacterial disease is known to exist, the utmost care should be taken to subject everything that has come in contact with the patient to a process which will kill the disease-producing plants. Only two ways of doing this are known:
(1) Subject the bacteria to extreme heat which will kill them—
(a) Burn everything that can be burned.
(b) Boil bed and body linen.
(c) Scald dishes.
(d) Scald or bake utensils.
(2) Use chemicals to destroy the germs—