§ SIR W. J. COLLINS, (St. Pancras, W.)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he will state the number of outbreaks of swine fever, the number of infected swine and contact swine slaughtered, and the amount paid in compensation in each year from 1890 to 1907.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) It is not possible to separate the numbers 1707 of infected and contact swine which have been slaughtered, but the following
| Number of Outbreaks of Swine Fever, Number of Swine slaughtered, and Compensation paid in the years 1890 to 1907. | |||
| Year | Outbreaks reported. | Swine attacked. | Compensation. |
| Number. | Number. | £ | |
| 1890 | 5,076 | 29,092 | 8,329 |
| 1891 | 5,595 | 32,349 | 9,187 |
| 1892 | 2,748 | 13,957 | 5,383 |
| 1893 (Jan.—Oct.) | 2,377 | 11,729 | 4,391 |
| Outbreaks confirmed. | Swine slaughtered as diseased or exposed to infection. | ||
| 1893 (Nov.—Dec.) | 536 | 6,045 | 34,362* |
| 1894 | 5,682 | 56,296 | 108,323 |
| 1895 | 6,305 | 69,931 | 120,205 |
| 1896 | 5,166 | 79,586 | 97,914 |
| 1897 | 2,155 | 40,432 | 68,354 |
| 1898 | 2,514 | 43,756 | 77,194 |
| 1899 | 2,322 | 30,797 | 40,198 |
| 1900 | 1,940 | 17,933 | 22,208 |
| 1901 | 3,140 | 15,237 | 20,072 |
| 1902 | 1,688 | 8,263 | 11,341 |
| 1903 | 1,478 | 7,933 | 12,741 |
| 1904 | 1,196 | 5,603 | 6,426 |
| 1905 | 817 | 3,876 | 7,305 |
| 1906 | 1,280 | 7,359 | 13,455 |
| 1907 | 2,336 | 11,275 | — |
| * Five months, November 1893 to March 1894. |
§ Note.—The figures relating to outbreaks and number of animals refer to calendar years. The figures relating to compensation paid refer to calendar
1708§ table will perhaps give my hon. friend the information he desires:
§ years in 1890, 1891, 1892, but the financial year ending March following in 1894 and subsequently.