§ 9. Mr. STANIERasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether the Board's officials collected any detail as to the number of animals found to have tuberculosis when slaughtering stock on farms during the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in 1912; and, if so, can he give the percentages in each country in each class of animal?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANAs no special examination was made with regard to tuberculosis by the Board's officials, no record was made of any such cases.
§ Mr. STANIERIs nothing found out regarding this matter?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI am afraid nothing on which we could base reliable statistics.
§ 14. Mr. C. BATHURSTasked what is approximately the estimated amount likely to be deducted from the compensation payable to an owner of a bovine animal slaughtered under Article 8 of the Tuberculosis Order of 1913 in respect of the reasonable costs of the valuation of such animal by the Board's valuer and of the examination of its carcase by a veterinary surgeon; and whether, after such deduction in the case of animals apparently healthy but found after slaughter to be suffering from advanced tuberculosis, anything is likely to be left by way of compensation to the owner?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe reasonable costs of the valuation and the proportion which the owner's share of the costs will bear to the amount of compensation payable must depend upon the circumstances of each particular case. But I would remind the hon. Member that cases of the kind which he contemplates will only arise in default of agreement between the owner and the local authority or when the owner requires the post-mortem examination to be made by a veterinary surgeon other than the veterinary inspector.