§ MR. JEFFREYS (Hants, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that on the occasion of an outbreak of scarlatina at Buxton the milk from certain farms had been prohibited from entering the council district, and that the council prohibited the sale of the milk without any evidence of its having produced the disease; and whether this prohibition is based on any statutory power.
§ MR. CHAPLINI have communicated with the Buxton Urban District Council, and I am informed that in consequence of an outbreak of scarlatina the district council prohibited, the milk from three farms outside the district from being supplied -within the district. The orders appear to have been made under Section 4 of the Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890, on the Report of the Medical Officer of Health that on an inspection of the farms, and, in the company of a veterinary surgeon, of the animals therein, he was of opinion that infectious disease was caused by the consumption of the milk supplied from the farms.