§ MR. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, in what foreign countries and in what British Possessions there was foot-and-mouth disease in each of the years from 1901 to 1905, inclusive.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Foot-and-mouth disease was reported to exist in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Austria - Hungary, and Argentina in each of the years from 1901 to 1905 inclusive, in Denmark in 1901 and 1904, in the Netherlands and in Spain in each year from 1901 to 1904 inclusive, in the United States and in Portugal in 1902 and 1903, and in Turkey in 1901, 1903, 1904, and 1905. We have no information as to the existence of the disease in any of the British Possessions, except in India, during the period in question.