HC Deb 24 July 1911 vol 28 cc1446-7
Mr. CHARLES BATHURST

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether his attention had been called to the paper on swine fever read by Professor Paul Uhlenhuth, the director of the bacteriological department of the Kaiserliches Gesundheitsamt, in Berlin, at the Royal Institute of Public Health on Wednesday last; whether the veterinary experts of the Board shared the views expressed in the paper 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, was considered practicable by the Board's veterinary advisers?

The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Edward Strachey)

No. Sir, but I will make myself acquainted with the paper to which the hon. Member refers.

Mr. C. BATHURST

I cannot hear a word.