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Moved for—
An Address to Her Most Gracious Majesty for, Copy of all orders given with respect to the operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts since the vote of the House of Commons in reference to compulsory examination."—(The Marquess of Salisbury.)
§ THE EARL OF NORTHBROOKMy Lords, a statement was made on Tuesday by the noble Viscount (Viscount Lifford), on the authority of a correspondent of his, that on the arrival of a transport at Portsmouth with troops, 30 women had left the Lock Hospital at Portsmouth uncured. I promised to make inquiry. It seems that some similar story appeared in one of the London papers; and the visiting surgeon for Portsmouth, Dr. Parson, wrote to the Admiralty at once on seeing it, to say that—
There is no foundation whatever for the statement therein contained of women having left the hospital, nor have any expressed any desire or shown any intention to do so until cured.
§ Motion agreed to.