HC Deb 23 July 1866 vol 184 cc1363-4

(Mr. Bruce, Mr. Baring.)

[BILL 173.] COMMITTEE.

Order for Committee read.

COLONEL BARTTELOT

expressed a hope that the Government would not proceed further with this important measure this Session, as the House could not have an opportunity of fairly discussing it.

MR. CORRY

had been very anxious that the law relating to vaccination should be amended during the present Session, because it was impossible to read the able Reports of the medical officer of the Privy Council without seeing that the present state of the law was very defective. But he had ascertained from hon. Gentlemen on both sides of the House that the measure was likely to meet with great opposition, and it was, therefore, very doubtful whether it could be carried through Parliament at so late a period of the Session. Moreover, in the opinion of his noble Friend the President of the Council, as well as of his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, some of its provisions required further and careful consideration; and, under these circumstances, it was not his intention to proceed with the Bill.

Order discharged: Bill withdrawn.