§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, with reference to the alleged case of swine fever said to have been traced to Carlow on 21st November, 1905, and to the fact that the general inquiries as to the health of the swine in that district were made with negative results, can he state on whose diagnosis was swine fever declared, and was the examination in this case an ordinary one.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe diagnosis in this case was made by the veterinary officers of the Board in accordance with the ordinary procedure.