§ MR. HOPWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the fact that one or more surgeons employed in the compulsory examination of prostitutes under the Contagious Diseases Acts have been made justices of the peace, in order that they may carry out the Acts in a twofold capacity, administering and executing the Law; whether he will state by what Minister such gentlemen were recommended to Her Majesty for appointment; whether he approves of such a confusion of duties; and, whether the individuals in question should not be called upon to make their choice once for all to act either as magistrates or as surgeons?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, that he had made inquiries on the subject, and had not been able to discover that any such appointments had been made.
§ MR. HOPWOODsaid, he believed the appointments were made by Earl Cairns, the ex-Lord Chancellor.