§ 78. Mr. WRIGHTasked the President of the Local Government Board, with reference to the grading of milk, if he will state by whom certificates are to be granted that a herd is free from tuberculosis and what is to be the test; and whether he is aware that the milk of at least 85 per cent. of the cows which have been tested and react to the tuberculin test is free from tubercle and that previous injection of tuberculin within six weeks of a test will render the ensuing test worthless?
§ Mr. HAYES FISHERCertificates as to freedom from tuberculosis, as determined by the tuberculin test after the 1st August, will have to be signed by a veterinary surgeon. The figures given by my hon. Friend are, as I am informed, approximately correct.
§ Mr. WRIGHTWhat steps are going to be taken to prevent tuberculin from being in the possession of, and used by, people other than qualified veterinary surgeons?
§ Mr. FISHERThat is a question of which the hon. Member had better give me notice.
§ Mr. WRIGHTThat is raised in the question which points out that if an injection of tuberculin has taken place the test is quite valueless.