§ MR. HAYES FISHER (Fulham)To ask the Secretary of State for War what number of the 106 Army horses which were suffering from epizootic lymphangitis in July last have been slaughtered; what number of fresh cases have occurred among Army horses in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, since that time.
{Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) Of the 108 horses suffering from this disease in July last sixty have been destroyed. Since that date ninety-six fresh cases have occurred in England, one in Scotland, and five in Ireland.