§ Major ANSTRUTHER-GRAYasked the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether his attention has been directed to the reports of the prevalence of the disease of glanders amongst horses in London; and whether he intends to take any steps in order to stamp it out?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe London County Council are and have been for some time past taking all possible steps to eradicate glanders in London, and we hope that the strict enforcement of the provisions of the Glanders Order of 1907—a copy of which I shall be pleased to send the hon. and gallant Member—will prove of considerable service for the purpose. The disease is not nearly so prevalent in London as it was a few years ago; in 1904, for instance, the number of outbreaks was 1,038, whereas last year the number was 495.