MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if he can state how many inspectors employed to inspect cattle in public sale yards in Glasgow are qualified as veterinary surgeons; and whether he has any official information showing that cattle unfit for food in Dublin are sent to Glasgow to be consumed there.
§ MR. SINCLAIRI am informed that there are six qualified veterinary surgeons in Glasgow who act as inspectors for inspecting cattle in public sale yards. Three act under the Diseases of Animals Acts, and three under the Public Health Acts. None of these inspectors have any official information from Dublin that cattle unfit for human food are sent to Glasgow to be consumed there. In all such cases, however, the carcases of the animals are seized and destroyed.
§ MR. SINCLAIRI must ask for notice. I have informed the House that a full Report on meat inspection in Scotland by the Local Government Board is being printed, and will be issued, and I suggest it would be useful if Questions on the subject were deferred till after its publication.