HC Deb 16 February 1857 vol 144 c701
MR. T. DUNCOMBE

said, he wished to ask the Vice President of the Board of Health when the Committee on Vaccination, agreed to by the Government during the last Session, was to be appointed?

MR. COWPER

said, he proposed to introduce during the present Session, a Bill somewhat similar to that which he had brought forward last year, and that Bill would be referred to a Select Committee, with the understanding that the Committee should inquire fully into the working and the results of the present law.

MR. T. DUNCOMBE

said, he should be glad to know when it was likely that the Bill would be introduced?

MR. COWPER

replied, that he could not answer the question at that moment, in consequence of the absence from town of his right hon. Friend (Mr. Monsell) the President of the Board of Health.

MR. BRADY

said, he had a question upon the same subject on the notice paper, but he would not put that question after the statement that had just been made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hertford; but he wished to state that in his opinion it was absolutely necessary that some measure should be introduced in reference to that matter.