§ MR. STANIERI beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether his attention has been called to the recent outbreak of contagious mammitis at Wirral, in Cheshire; and whether the Board are going to schedule the disease under the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, as the outbreak has created much alarm in the district.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe Board made full inquiry into this outbreak, but on the information available they are not prepared to adopt the suggestion of the hon. Member.
§ MR. STANIERSeeing that thirty horses died, is there no grave danger for the whole district and ought not the Board of Agriculture to take immediate action?
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYI am informed by our experts that there is not the danger which, the hon. Member appears to fear.