§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether, in view of the increase of rabies in Ireland from 353 cases in 1890 to 771 cases in 1895, as stated in the Bluebook recently issued by the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council, and of the fact that barely half of the Unions in Ireland have enforced muzzling orders, he will request the Lord Lieutenant to issue a general order for the whole of Ireland as a means of stamping out the dreadful disease of hydrophobia?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI would refer the hon. Member to the somewhat similar Question which he put to me on the 17th April. A Departmental Committee on which the Irish Veterinary Department is represented has been appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire into the working of the laws relating to dogs, and when the Report of this Committee shall have been issued 1441 the question of taking further measures with a view to the stamping out of rabies will be considered.