Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 February 1954.
Mr Thomas Dugdale
, Richmond (Yorks)
12:00,
18 February 1954
There were nine casualties among the 17,000 horses shipped to or from Great Britain during 1953. Six horses died and three had to be slaughtered because of illness or injury.