Bulletin Number 12 from Colonel H. S. Hawkins

Hoadquerters 35th Divisi n Amerionn Expediti nary Forces RECORDS 13th Janurry 1919 a SERVICE" BULLETIN sp No. 12 } 792 ) 1. The following is publishod for the informati. n and com- plience by all organiz ati ns of this command: "Hoodquartors G.H.U., A.E.F. 12th Jamucry 1919. Commanding Gonoral 35th Divisi n Numbor Y279. Officors and soldiors wh have forwarded official Christmos coupons to the Unitod States and have no t es yet ro- coivod their packages will notify the Control post Offico at APO 902, stating neme, army sorial numbor, rank and present organ- isction. DAVIS." 2. PASSES TO NANCY No more possos to visit NANCY will bo grented except on officinl business. 3. SKIN DISEASES PUBLIS ANIMALS. I. Tho sprond of mengo and other skin diseases among public enimals calls for drastic meesures to stamp it cut. Command- ing Officers and all other officers with animel transport Vil 11 at nee direct their effort to this end. II. H rness, saddlos, blankets, nosebags, horse covers, grooming kits, and ell other horse equipment will be assigned a particular animal and never used on any other unless obsolutely required by the service, when the equipment will be thcroughly disinfected before such use. III. Unit Veterinarions Will be required to carefully inspect daily, or as often as possible, every animal of the command and isolate all suspects. The stables, equipment and animals expo sed to contaninati n will be at once disinfected with 5% creolin solution or a substitute and the stables whiteweshed. This dis- infecting process will be repeated weekly; on the seventh and twenty-first days disinfect, on the fourtcenth and wonty-cighth days disinfect and whitewash. IV. Bofore occupying stables for the first time they will be disinfected es directed in paragraph 3. Whore a change of station is involved the unit vetorinarian will be provided with sufficient transportati n to carry the necessary working party and matorial and pro ceod sufficiently in advance to the now stati n to select stables and properly clean and disinfect them bofore the arrival of the command. If the command should arrivo at its new station beforo the stables are prepared, animol: will be picketed thcthe open until the disinfecting process is completed. This applies to all stables, including these previously occupied by our onn troops. V. All animals will be clipped as soon as possible down to the elbow joint and stifle, only. Fotlocks will be neatly trimmed. So much of G. 0. #22, these hendquarters, 1918, as forbids the trimming of fetlocks is revcked, (OVER)