HC Deb 17 October 1912 vol 42 cc1447-8W
Mr. KELLAWAY

asked the President of the Board of Agriculture if his attention has been called to the suggestion that foot-and-mouth disease, poultry roup, and other diseases of domestic animals are carried by foxes; and whether he has any official information to this effect?

Mr. RUNCIMAN

I am aware of the suggestion that foxes and other wild animals may carry infection from one place to another, but, so far as I can ascertain, no outbreak of disease has even been traced to this cause.