§ MR. MONTAGU SCOTTasked the Vice President of the Council, If his attention has been called to the exclusion, on Thursday the 22nd of June, of cattle from the Royal Counties Agricultural Show at Preston, near Brighton, on the ground of a supposed case of pleuro-pneumonia in the neighborhood; and, whether it is a fact that Preston is, or is about to be, declared an infected district within the meaning of the Cattle Disease Prevention Act?
§ MR. MUNDELLASir, the Privy Council has no information as to the exclusion of cattle from the Royal Counties Agricultural Show at Preston, near Brighton, beyond what has appeared in the newspapers. The cattle appear to have been withdrawn by the Society or by the owners in consequence of the existence of pleuro-pneumonia in the borough of Brighton; but the Privy Council, having considered the question, decided there was nothing to justify them in stopping the show. The local authority have declared infected places, which include all the premises where the disease has appeared; but there has been no idea of declaring the parish of Preston an infected area. Representations against the holding of the show have been made; but we have refused to interfere, as there was nothing to warrant us in stopping the show.