§ SIR GEORGE BOWYERasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether it is true that cattle are kept in the dairies in London, or premises appertaining thereto, in places defective in light and air, and not favourable to the health of the animals; and, whether he has considered the desirability, having regard to the existence of cattle plague for three months in and about London, of forbidding the keeping of cattle within the Metropolis, and, if necessary, of obtaining powers from Parliament for that purpose?
§ VISCOUNT SANDONSir, a large number of cowsheds in London are, I fear, as the hon. and learned Baronet says, in a very defective condition in regard to sanitary arrangements—a condition of things not altogether unknown, I am afraid, in other districts, both town and country. The question, however, of prohibiting the keeping of any cattle whatever within the metropolis is a very large one, and though the Government are taking very stringent measures to deal with the cattle plague in London, we are not prepared, with our present information, to propose to Parliament to take the extreme measure of forbidding all cattle being kept within its limits.