HC Deb 27 July 1885 vol 300 c208

Order for Second Reading read.

SIR FARRER HERSCHELL

said, he should like to know what the Bill was?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR)

said, it was to enable the masters of workhouses to take in lunatics, who had been wandering about the streets, for a short time.

Bill read a second time, and committed for To-morrow.