§ Mr. GREENWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the fact that one of the unauthorised experiments of oophorectomy, performed by Mr. Shattock on 12th October and 5th November respectively, under Certificate B, was prolonged until 11th October, 1909, actually brought this case 2310W to the knowledge of the Home Office within the statutory period of six months, within which prosecutions are required to be instituted?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLNo illegal operation took place within six months of the time when the matter came to the knowledge of the Home Office, and I am advised that no prosecution could have been instituted on the ground that one of the animals which had been operated on survived in apparent good health to a date within the six months.