§ MAJOR RASCHI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture if he is aware that quarters of beef, sheep, etc., condemned at Deptford, are washed ashore on the Essex coast, in consequence of their being jettisoned by the contractors off Foulness instead of in Barron deeps, thereby spreading the infection of pleuro and foot-and-mouth disease; and if he will induce the contractors to do their duty by taking the carcases further out to sea, in accordance with the terms of their agreement.
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. LONG,) Liverpool, West DerbyI think the complaints upon which the question of my hon. and gallant friend is based have reference to the fact that some of the offal which was ordered to be taken out to sea, in consequence of the discovery of foot-and-mouth disease in animals brought from the Argentine, has been washed ashore. The matter is receiving the attention of the coastguard, and inasmuch as the importation of live animals from the Argentine is now prohibited, there is not likely to be any further cause of complaint. I am advised that there is no probability of the introduction of disease in the manner suggested.