§ EARL GRANVILLEmoved to resolve—
That as the Public Health Bill constitutes a new Board of Health, inasmuch as Cholera exists in many parts of the Kingdom, and various sanitary Regulations which can only be carried out effectually by the said Board imperatively are required, the Circumstances which render Legislation on the Matter of the said Bill expedient are of such Urgency as to render the immediate Consideration of the said Bill necessary; and it is therefore reasonable that the same be allowed to be read a Second Time this Day, if the House should think fit so to order.
§ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYsaid, that the law under which the Board of Health was constituted would expire at the end of the present Session of Parliament; and that the necessity for the present measure was rendered the more urgent by the increase which had taken place in the mortality arising from cholera. The noble Earl stated that the deaths from these causes in the metropolis were, for the week ending July 15—Cholera, 5; Diarrhœa, 46; Total, 51: for the week ending July 22—Cholera, 26; Diarrhœa, 58; Total, 84: for the week ending July 29—Cholera, 133; Diarrhea, 84; Total, 217: and for the week ending August 5—Cholera, 399; Diarrhœa, 148; Total, 547.
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading; and for Standing Orders Nos. 37 and 38 to be considered, in order to their being dispensed with on the said Bill, and the Lords Summoned, read.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.
§ On Question, agreed to.
§ Bill read 2a accordingly.
§ Committee negatived.
§ Standing Orders Nos. 37 and 38 considered (according to Order) and dispensed with on the said Bill.
§ Bill read 3a, and passed.