HC Deb 12 December 1929 vol 233 c697W
Lieut. - Colonel FREMANTLE

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether the use of live vaccine which has been issued from the Ministry's laboratory since 1912 has resulted in an increase or a decrease in the incidence of contagious abortion in cattle; and whether he proposes to invite the co-operation of experts from outside the Ministry in considering the best means of reducing the incidence of the disease?

Mr. N. BUXTON

As contagious abortion is not a scheduled disease, no statistics are available to show what effect live vaccine issued from the Ministry's laboratory and also by commercial firms has had on the incidence of the disease. My Department is already conferring with the Directors of Veterinary Research Institutes in Great Britain and other eminent veterinary surgeons on the possibility of improving the existing methods of controlling this disease.