§ SIR W. J. COLLINS (St. Pancras, W.)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President 1729 of the Board of Agriculture, what arrangements exist for securing the prompt international notification of the existence of contagious diseases of sheep and cattle in different countries; whether the presence of any contagious diseases of cattle, e.g., foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, or pleuro-pneumonia, has been reported during the present year in Canada or the United States; and how many cases have been reported.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) With reference to the first part of the Question perhaps my hon. friend will allow me to refer him to my reply on 28th May to a similar Question by my hon. friend the Member for Bermondsey. The reply to the latter part of the Question is, so far as we are aware, in the negative.