§ 72. Sir JOHN SPEARasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if he can give any further information relative to the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Somerset?
§ Mr. ACLANDThe only confirmed outbreak has been that which was announced in the Press, at Somerset and Bath Asylum, within two miles of Wells. All the affected animals have been slaughtered, and the slaughter of the contact animals on the asylum premises was completed yesterday. No origin of this outbreak can at present be assigned.