Volume 3

A treatise on hygiene and public health / edited by Thomas Stevenson and Shirley F. Murphy.

Date:
1892-1894
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on hygiene and public health / edited by Thomas Stevenson and Shirley F. Murphy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    428/492 (page 416)
    Transmission of certificate of suc- cessful vaccination to registrar (Vacci- nation Amendment (Ireland) Act, 1879, Sec. 5). Sec. 3. Register of cases of successful vaccina- tion (The Vaccina- tion (Ireland) Act, 1863, Sec. 7). Fees to be paid to registrar by boards of guardians (The Vaccination (Ireland) Act, 1863, Sec. 9). Return of births and deaths to dispensary medical officer where he is not the form entitled Form A, first schedule.1 The medical certificate of successful vaccination is to be transmitted by the medical practitioner who performed the operation through the post on the form entitled 'Notice of Requirement of Vaccination,' to the registrar of births and deaths of the district in which the birth was registered, and further to deliver, without fee or charge, a duplicate of such certificate to the parent or person having the custody of the child. If the medical officer of any dispensary district who performed the operation is also the registrar of births and deaths of the district in which the birth was registered, it is sufficient for him to sign one certificate to be delivered to the parent or person having the custody of the child. If, however, after due inquiry, the district in which the birth was registered is not known to the medical officer or practitioner, or if the birth has not been registered, such certificate is to be sent to the registrar within whose district the operation was performed. If a child is born else- where than in Ireland, but brought into Ireland after August 15,1879, without having been vaccinated, the parent or person having its custody is under the same obligation to have such child vaccinated as if it had been born in Ireland on the day on which it was brought into Ireland. All these successful vaccination certificates when received by the registrar are to be registered by him in the ' Register of Cases of Successful Vaccination,' but re-vaccinations (in which cases a certificate is not necessary) or the vaccination of persons born before January 1, 1864, should not be entered in the register. The register is in the form given on page 419. A fee of 3d. is to be paid to the registrar for each entry made in this register, except where (as dispensary medical officer) he performed the operation himself, and has thereby become entitled to the fee of 2s. allowed in such cases. As already stated, where the registrar is not the dispensary medical officer of the district, he is to forward to that medical officer a monthly return of all births and deaths of infants under twelve months of age registered by him during the month, and for every birth and death entered in such monthly return the registrar is entitled to a fee of 2d. 1 Form A, First Schedule Vaccination Act, 1879. County Union District Name of Child Name of Parent Place of Residence Name of County in which Parent resides Age of Child Number in Register of Births Signature of Medical Officer or Other Medical Practitioner Date COMPULSORY VACCINATION (IRELAND) ACTS, 1863 and 1879. Note—This certificate is intended to be used by the medical practitioner who vaccinates the child as a duplicate to be given to the parent. Place of Child's Birth, Place of Vaccination, Date of Vaccination, Medical Certificate of Successful Vaccination. I, the undersigned, hereby certify that , the Child of . of . in the County of. has been successfully vaccinated by me. Dated this day of Signature . Medical Officer of the. 18 (Or other Dispensary District. Medical Practitioner may be.) as the case