§ SIR FRANCIS CHANNINGTo ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the Report of the Tuberculosis Commission will be immediately issued; and, if not, whether, having regard to the constant demands of local authorities for further powers to deal with this disease, whether as affecting the public health or cattle, and to the questions constantly raised by agriculturists, butchers, and others as to the losses caused by the persistence of this disease, he will press the Commission to report promptly and undertake to deal with the whole question of the extirpation of this scourge by national and adequate machinery at the earliest moment.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) I have made inquiry and am informed that no definite date can be fixed for the issue 167 of the final Report of the Royal Commission, but I understand that they are now preparing another interim Report, dealing with the infectivity of milk from tuberculous cows, which will probably be presented next month. I will bring under the notice of the Commission the desire expressed in the latter part of the Question with regard to their Report.