§ Mr. C. BATHURSTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he has now made himself acquainted with the opinions upon the nature and prevention of swine fever expressed by Professor Paul Uhlenhuth, director of the Bacteriological Department of the Kaiserliches Gesundheitsamt, in Berlin, at the Royal Institute of Public Health, on 19th July; whether the veterinary experts of the Board share the views expressed by the German professor as to the nature of the disease, the means of its transmission, and the methods of destroying its germs and so preventing its spread; and whether the employment of an immunisation serum, as advocated by the lecturer, is considered practicable by the Board's veterinary advisers?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe views expressed by Professor Uhlenhuth as to the pathology of swine fever are in agreement with those held by the Board's veterinary advisers. The Board do not think that swine fever could be stamped out by the use of an immunising serum.