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94 Mr. CRAUFURD seconded the amendment. with regard to this Bill. As the Government did not tell the Lord NAAS said, a Bill had been brought in for extending committee whatthey thought of the measure or of the working , of the Act of last session, it would be better to throw out the to the graduates of the University of London the rights enjoyed first clause. The noble lord moved an amendment accord- by the graduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was thought by the House and by the Government that the ingly. Mr. BARROW supported the amendment, inasmuch as he rights of practice enjoyed by certain bodies should be extended, and that was the sole object of this Bill. objected to the payment of vaccination out of the poor-rates. Mr. BAINES felt doubts whether the Legislaturehad acted Mr. GOULBURN thought that some general measure ought to wisely in placing public vaccination under the administration be introduced, not having reference to any particular university, of the Poor-law Board. It was found that a mistake had been but to secure to the public some uniformity of medical qualilimade in the Act of last session, and that it was necessary that cation. (Hear, hear.) the child should be brought to the medical man on the seventh, Lord J. RussELL said, it was a matter for consideration and not on the eighth day, and this alteration was one of the whether there were not questions of medical reform which principal objects of the Bill. He thought it would be more ought to be discussed before the Bill was read a third time and equitable that the expense of vaccination should be paid out of passed. He thought that the Bill ought not to be rejected at the poor-rates than out of the consolidated fund, because, if it once, and he would, therefore, propose that the debate be adwere defrayed out of the consolidated fund, he did not know journed till Wednesday. ’what amount of jobbery might not be perpetrated. (Hear.) The House then divided on the motion for the adjournment Mr. BRANDY doubted whether the alteration of the Bill from of the debate :the eighth to the seventh day was an improvement. He thought that in this climate the eighth was the proper day for bringing the child to the medical man. The Burials Beyond the Metropolis Bill was read a third time Lord BARRIXGTON observed that the opinion expressed by the President of the Poor-law Board amounted to a condemnapassed. tion of the Bill. He recommended the postponement of the measure. MONDAY, JULY 24TH. I Mr. FITZROY said that, as doubts had been expressed as to I THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL INVESTIGATION. the alteration of the day, and after the opinions expressed in Mr. PELLATT asked whether the inquest on the body of the favour of the withdrawal of the Bill, he should recommend the child Alfred Richardson was held by orders from the Governto withdraw hon. baronet J. to consent (Sir Pakington) right - all the clauses but the second. (Hear, hear.) Next session, the ment, and whether a short-hand writer’snotes could be pro. whole matter might be referred to a select committee, who cured, so that the evidence given on that occasion might be ? might inquire how the Bill of last session had worked. (Hear.) printed Lord PALMERSTON said the Government had no short-hand Mr. MICHELL knew that the President of the Poor-law Board had received great complaints from various parts of the writer at the inquest, and therefore could not lay any such notes before the House. He could, however, lay the coroner’s country that this Bill could not be worked. He doubted notes of the inquest on the table. whether vaccination was a preventive to the small-pox. : HIGHWAYS (PUBLIC HEALTH ACT) BILL. Sir J. PAKINGTON did not feel justified in abandoning the Bin. This Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord SEYMOUR wished to encourage vaccination, and only objected to the mode of carrying it out. In country parishes, NUISANCES REMOVAL AND DISEASES PREVENTION ACTS CONSOLIDATION AND AMENDMENT BILL. where people lived two or three miles from a medical man, it Lord PALMERSTON moved the second reading of this Bill, pro might be the death of the child to compel the mother to carry it to the doctor on the seventh day after vaccination. He formd, with the view of introducing. some amendments. should propose that the various clauses of the Bill, with the Lord SEYMOUR was altogether opposed to this Bill, and recommended that it should not be proceeded with, so that an exception of the second, be struck out. The clause was then negatived. opportunity might be afforded of bringing in a Bill better Clause 2 was agreed to. suited for the purpose next session. On clause 3, Mr. HENLEY was also opposed to the Bill. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that, if this clause were not passed, After a short discussion, the committee would reverse the principle of compulsory Lord PALMERSTON said he had felt it his duty to proceed with vaccination which was adopted in the Bill of last session. this Bill which had come down from the Lords. He considered Mr. T. DUNCOMBE proposed to insert the words " and that, as there was no doubt cholera had made its appearance, fifteenth"after the word " seventh." He knew medical men a Bill on this subject should be gone on with; but if the feeling who would stake their reputation upon the fact that two of the House was against the Bill he would not press it on their examinations were necessary after vaccination, and that the attention. examination on the fifteenth day was the more important of The second reading was then negatived without a division. the two. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that the second attendance would WEDNESDAY, JULY 26TH. impose an unnecessary hardship upon the poor. The amendment was then negatived. MEDICAL GRADUATES (IRELAND AND SCOTLAND) BILL. The remaining clauses of the Bill were put and negatived Mr. GOULBURN seeing the hon. member who had charge of without a division, and the Bill was reported, with amendthis bill in his place, asked whether he intended to proceed with to the House. ments, it this session. Colonel DUNNE said he had unfortunately been absent when SATURDAY, JULY 22ND. the order was read, in consequence of which the Bill would be MEDICAL GRADUATES’ (IRELAND AND SCOTLAND) BILL. postponed until to-morrow. It was, however, his intention to persevere with it, and he was only waiting to see the result of On the motion for the third reading of this Bill, Mr. E. LocKHART presented a petition against the further another measure in the other House. progress of the measure from the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr. GOULBURN observed, that the Bill had hitherto been proceeded with when but few members were present, and it was ROYAL PANOPTICON OF SCIENCE AND ART, now brought on for a third reading without any discussion LEICESTER-SQUARE. taken He it. the third place upon having hoped reading would be postponed. Colonel DuNKEsaid, the Bill had already received a long and THE directors of this interesting place of amusement well deserve the support and encouragement of the public, for the eminently practical discussion. Mr. E. LOCKHART hoped the suggestion of the hon. member spirit and energy with which this scientific exhibition has for the University of Cambridge would be acceded to. He, been established. The requirements of the age now demand - as well as several other hon. members, had left the House when something more than mere amusement. In 1851, the Crystal the Bill was brought on, under the impression that it would be Palace gave so grand and unexpected a lesson to the people, as referred, with another Bill, to a select committee. He begged to the real extent and limits of useful art, that the value of to move that the Bill be read a third time that day three such institutions as the present is now justly and properly months. appreciated.

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