SIR UGHTRED KAY-SHUTTLE-WORTH (Lancashire, Clitheroe)asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Whether he can give the House information as to any investigations which the veterinary officials of the Agricultural Department have been instructed to make into Dr. Klein's theory of scarlatina infection from the milk of diseased cows; whether, at present, any confirmation of that theory has been obtained by the investigations of other medical or veterinary observers; and, whether he can lay upon the Table of the House any Reports on the subject, and any communications which have passed between the Agricultural Department and the Local Government Board?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY (Lord JOHN MANNERS) (Leicestershire, E.)The inquiry respecting the alleged scarlatina outbreak by the agency of the milk of diseased cows is still being carried on. But, up to the present time, the investigations of medical and veterinary observers do not justify any positive conclusion. Communications on the subject have taken place between the Local Government Board—with which we are anxious to co-operate—and the Agricultural Department, and a Report will be laid before Parliament as soon as the inquiry is completed.