§ MR. FELL (Great Yarmouth)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, when the 346 last cases of foot-and-mouth disease and anthrax occurred among cattle in Canada; and whether he has received advices that there is no disease now existing among Canadian cattle.
§ THE TREASURER OF THE HOUSE-HOLD (Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Somersetshire, S.)The Board are unable to reply to the first part of the Question without reference to the Canadian Government. The reply to the second part of the Question is in the negative.
SIR GILBERT PARKERDid not the right hon. Gentleman say the other day that disease did exist in Canada?
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYYes; but there is a question as to the date I when the last case was reported.