§ MR. HAYES FISHER (Fulham)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that there is no known method of detecting occult cases of epizootic lymphangitis while the animals are alive, he will take steps, wherever an outbreak has occurred, to prevent such cases being transferred from one station to another, thereby increasing the number of centres of infection; whether, in view of the fact that no less than 64.40 per cent. of Army horses have had to be slaughtered, while 27.38 per cent, are still under treatment, and only 8.12 per cent. have recovered (and of these apparently recovered cases there is always a liability of the disease recurring, even after a considerable period), he will consider the desirability of slaughtering all clinically infected animals, as being the most likely method of stamping out the disease and reducing the risk of infecting civilian studs; and whether he can state what was the average period of treatment of the 254 slaughtered, the thirty cured, and the 108 uncured cases respectively, and at what stations outbreaks have occurred in the United Kingdom.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) The replies to the first two parts of the Question are in the affirmative. It must, however, be pointed out that the figures 64.40 per cent. refer to the proportion of horses slaughtered to horses infected and not to Army horses generally. The average period of treatment of the 254 slaughtered was twelve days; of the thirty-two cured cannot be stated definitely, but none were considered cured until they had been under observation for six months; and of the 108 uncured cases cannot be stated as they 1453 are still under observation.The list of stations at which outbreaks have
| Station. | Number Admitted. | Cured | Remaining. | Destroyed. |
| Waterford | 6 | 2 | — | 4 |
| Kilkenny | 4 | 1 | — | 3 |
| Aldershot | 61 | 11 | — | 50 |
| Curragh | 6 | — | — | 6 |
| Brighton | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Manchester | 2 | — | — | 2 |
| Sheffield | 2 | — | — | 2 |
| Newcastle-on-Tyne | 20 | 4 | 9 | 7 |
| Woolwich | 231 | 14 | 86 | 131 |
| Bradford | 21 | — | 4 | 17 |
| Ipswich | 4 | — | 2 | 2 |
| Colchester | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Bulford | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Trowbridge | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Shorncliffe | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Newbridge | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Leeds | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Dover | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Clogheen | 6 | — | — | 6 |
| Deepcut | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Fermoy | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Limerick | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Chelsea | 3 | — | 1 | 2 |
| Birmingham | 2 | — | — | 2 |
| St. John's Wood | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Bandon | 2 | — | — | 2 |
| Chatham | 3 | — | 3 | — |
| Dorchester | 2 | — | — | 2 |
| Glen Imaal | 4 | — | — | 4 |
| Christchurch | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Total | 394 | 32 | 108 | 254 |