§ Mr. de Freitasasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will make a further statement on the foot-and-mouth outbreak in the country generally, and in Lincolnshire and adjacent counties in particular.
§ Mr. SoamesUp to midnight yesterday, there were 208 outbreaks in the present series.
There have been no outbreaks in Lincolnshire and the number of outbreaks in adjacent counties is as follows:
Yorks, E. Riding 2 Nottingham 16 Leicester 2 Norfolk 69 The five outbreaks in Lincolnshire—Lindsey—during the period 5th-15th September, 1960, had no connection, so far as we know, with the present series.