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35.: Public Health 2 AUGUST, 1866 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868, ed. John M. Robson and Bruce L. Kinzer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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Public Health

2 AUGUST, 1866

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 184, col. 1908. Not reported in The Times. Mill’s interjection came in the debate on the third reading of “A Bill [as Amended by the Select Committee . . .] to Amend the Law Relating to the Public Health,” 29 Victoria (29 June, 1866), PP, 1866, IV, 425–48, Clause 39. This clause, concerning proof that inmates of a house or part thereof were family members, put the onus of proof on the claimants. Ayrton moved (unsuccessfully) to strike out this clause. He was followed by Thomas Chambers, who said “nothing could be easier than for the parties charged to show that they were one family, while it would be an impossibility for the police to prove the negative.” Mill replied.

mr. j. stuart mill said, the only proof that would be required would be repute.