HAMPSHIRE AND THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.

HC Deb 07 March 1892 vol 2 cc142-3

MR. BEACH (Hants,) Andover

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture why Hampshire, which is free from foot-and-mouth disease, should be included in the scheduled counties?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, Sleaford

The movement of animals out of Hampshire was prohibited in consequence of the occurrence of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at Ash, in Surrey, a place quite close to the borders of Hampshire. This outbreak is believed to have had its origin at Aldershot, one of the places to which some of the beasts, amongst which the disease was originally discovered, were sent down from the London Market on 1st February. Aldershot is itself in Hampshire, and in the circumstances I could not but feel that the movement of animals out of that county would for the present be very dangerous.