§ MR. MORRELL (Oxfordshire, Woodstock)To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis has or will shortly report on the effect produced or disease set up by introducing into the body of the bovine animal material containing living tubercla bacilli of human and bovine origin respectively through the alimentary canal as distinct from, effect when introduced by subcutaneous injection, and will urge an early Report on the third clause of the reference, viz., under what conditions, if at all, the transmission of the disease from animals to man takes place, and what are the circumstances favourable or unfavourable to such transmission as affecting food for man.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) As I stated in my reply to the hon. Member for the Eastern Division of Northants on the 9th May † last, I understand that the Royal Commission hope to issue a further Interim Report towards the end of the present year. I am informed that this
See (4) Debates, exlv., 1342.1046 Report will contain details of the different results obtained by various methods of infecting bovine and other animals with tubercle derived from different sources, but I understand that some considerable time must elapse before the Commission can issue a Report dealing with the third clause of the reference to them.