§ MR. LONG (Liverpool, West Derby)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the large quantities of milk imported from Hamburg and other foreign places; and whether, if it is the case that the dairies and cowsheds from which this milk is sent are subject to no proper sanitary inspection, he has considered if the sale of such milk may not constitute a grave danger to the health of the public?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERI am informed by the Board of Customs that during the present year the value of liquid milk and cream imported into the United 677 Kingdom was £630. Of this sum £613 represented the value of the importation from Holland, and £17 the value of that from Denmark and Sweden. We have no information with regard to the sanitary inspection of dairies and cowsheds in the three countries named, and I am informed by the Medical Department that they have no evidence that the importation of this milk constitutes a grave danger to the public health.
§ MR. LONGHave you no information at all as to the regulations in. force in these countries? It is not a question of the quantity of milk, but of the risk run.
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERI have no information.