§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the calves from which lymph will be taken for vaccination will be submitted to the tubercular test, and those calves excluded from use which are shown by the tubercular test to be suffering from tuberculosis?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARDI have considered this matter, and the proposal of the honourable Member will be unnecessary, because I am making arrangements by which each calf from which lymph has been taken will be slaughtered and examined by a competent expert, and no lymph will be issued from any calf until it has been ascertained and certified on post-mortem that the animal is not only free from all signs of tuberculosis, but that it is also healthy in other respects.