§ MR. LAURENCE HARDY (Kent, Ashford)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he can give any further information with regard to the outbreak of rabies at Northampton; and whether it has proved conclusively, by experimental inoculation or by other tests, that the cases reported as rabies were actually cases of that disease.
§ MR. COURTHOPEI beg also to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the Board of Agriculture, 684 whether the two suspected cases of rabies at Northampton have, on investigation, proved to be cases of that disease.
§ THE TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Sir EDWARD STRACHEY,) Somersetshire, S.The results of the inoculative tests made in connection with the suspected cases of rabies were, I am glad to say, negative, and the Muzzling Order was revoked on the 31st ultimo by an Order which conies into operation to-morrow.
§ MR. LAURENCE HARDYThen is it the opinion that these were not cases of rabies at all?
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYYes.