§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Agriculture if, in view of the importance of domestic rabbits to the individual's private larder and to the export trade, he will make a statement concerning the research he is carrying on to help the domestic rabbit keepers of this country to prevent their domestic rabbits being attacked by the rabbit disease known as myxomatosis.
§ Sir T. DugdaleResearch is in progress at the Ministry's Veterinary Laboratory at Weybridge with a vaccine that is known to give rabbits a reasonable degree of protection. I am advised, however, that domestic rabbits can be protected by the use of insect screens and insecticides against mosquitoes which may carry the disease.