§ 56. Sir John Mellorasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will make a further statement with regard to the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle in Birmingham?
§ The Minister of Pensions (Mr. Ramsbotham)I have been asked to reply. The outbreak at Birmingham was discovered on 3rd April amongst the consignment of cattle in the corporation abattoir received there on 31st March from a firm of wholesale butchers at Nottingham on whose premises the disease was confirmed on 2nd April. Disinfection of the corporation abattoir was completed on 4th April, and there have been no subsequent developments from this outbreak.