§ MR. HUBBARD (Bucks, N.)I beg to ask the Vice Chamberlain who are the officials on whose information the Privy Council rely, when they prohibit or allow the landing of animals from foreign countries; how often in each year such officials report to the Home 1807 Government on the sanitary condition of the animals of the foreign country to which they are accredited; and what was the ten our and date of the last Report from Germany, in consequence of which the four cargoes of sheep, suffering from foot-and-mouth disease, were recently landed at Hull, Grimsby, Hartlepool, and Deptford?
§ THE VICE CHAMBERLAIN (Viscount LEWISHAM,) LewishamThe Privy Council receives information of outbreaks of disease from Foreign Governments, and also from British Consuls. From countries in which contagious disease exists Reports are sent every month, but the British Consuls are required to telegraph immediately on receiving information of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Information of the discovery of foot-and-mouth disease at Hamburg was received from the German Embassy, and was accompanied by the statement that the export of sheep from Hamburg had been stopped by the Hamburg authorities. Before, however, the disease was detected in Hamburg, some diseased sheep had been shipped and were on their way to this country.