HC Deb 10 April 1896 vol 39 c730

On the Motion for the Second Reading of this Bill,

DR. TANNER

asked that some explanation of its provisions should be given to the House.

*THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. T. W. RUSSELL,) Tyrone, S.

said that he could do that in a few words. A Debate took place in Committee of Supply in the Session of 1894–95 on a sum of £1,800 charged for the maintenance of a quarantine station near Portsmouth. This station was for plague and yellow fever. One disease was extinct and the other was very rare, and an undertaking was given that a Bill should be brought in to abolish the station, putting things under the port sanitary authorities.

Read 2° and committed for Monday next.