Report from the Select Committee on the Vaccine Board : with the minutes of evidence and an appendix. / Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 28 August 1833.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Vaccine Board.
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1833
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    Mr. Keate to the Home Office on the part of the College of Surgeons, who, in the event of the disconthmance of the Vaccine Board, proposed under- taking the superintendence of Vaccination gratuitously, if Government would continue to pay the Stationary Vaccinators. In the plan which the Committee are prepared to recommend, they do not propose at once to break up the whole of the National Establish- ment, which they think might be attended with injurious effects. They find it stated in evidence, that if the privilege were accorded to the Hospital at King's Cross and to the London Vaccine Institution of transmitting Lymph post-free, that privilege, without any other support from Government, would be adequate to give prosperity and permanence to those Institutions, and to insure the maintenance of the Vaccine Disease in London. If this privilege be granted, and should be followed by those favourable results which are anticipated, it may be thought prudent at some future period to make some further reduction in the National Establishment. The Committee beg now to recommend, That the Board for superintending Vaccination should consist in future of Two Physicians and One Surgeon; that all Physicians and Surgeons should be eligible respectively as Members of the Board ; and that the Members should be appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to hold their offices during pleasure. That considering that the duties of this Board are likely to be rather honorary than burthensome, the persons to be appointed Members of the Board should before appointment be requested to signify their con- sent to perform the duties gratuitously. That some of the Regulations of the present Board should un- dergo revision * ; and that all future Regulations of the Board respecting the supply of Lymph to applicants, and the qualifications required of persons to be elected Corresponding, Extraordinary, or Stationary Vac- cinators, should, before final adoption by the Board, be submitted for approbation to the said Secretary of State. That the Board should have power to appoint an Inspector, whose duty it should be to superintend the Vaccinators and to attend to the distribution of Lymph; and a Registrar, whose duty it should be to conduct the correspondence, and in case of the Inspector's illness or absence to officiate in his place; that such appointments by the Board should be subject to the approbation of the said Secretary of State; and that the salary of each of the said officers of the Board should be 200 L a year. That the appointing of the Stationary Vaccinators, the fixing of their salaries, and of the number and locality of the stations, should rest with • Minute of the National Vaccine Board, November 22, 1810: Tbat none but Professional Men be supplied with Lymph unless the Board shall think proper to dispense witli this Regulation. Minute of the National Vaccine Board, December 5, 1831 : A letter was read from Mr. , of , statine; that he had established a Vaccine Institution, and had Vaccinated many children in the Forest of Dean ; still he felt unable to keep up the supply, and requested fresh Lymph. He also solicited the appointment of Coirespoiiding V^accinnlor, but not being a Member of the College of Surgeons, he was not nominated.' 753. b 3