Mr. CATHCART WASONasked the President of the Board of Agriculture if he is now in a position to explain the nature of Johne's disease; whether there are any cases of the same disease in the United Kingdom at the present time; and from what country the disease has spread?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe disease is an inflammation of the intestines caused by a specific microbe, and it is characterised in the later stages by chronic diarrhœa and wasting. The disease exists in the United Kingdom at the present time. Nothing' is known as to the original source of infection.