§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELLasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether he can give the House any information as to the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in the North of England?
§ MR. MUNDELLASir, I do not think there has been any such spread of foot-and-mouth disease in England since 634 last week as to render necessary any change in the surrounding circumstances. As soon as ever the disease spread to Durham we issued an Order affecting Scotland, which placed the local authorities in full power to deal with the whole of the question. I am sorry to say that I have heard to-day that, although there is no further spread northwards as far as England is con-corned, there has been an outbreak in Wigtownshire, in Scotland.