The law relating to vaccination : comprising the vaccination acts and the instructional circulars, orders, and regulations issued by authority, with introduction, notes & index / nby Danby P. Fry.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1872
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Credit: The law relating to vaccination : comprising the vaccination acts and the instructional circulars, orders, and regulations issued by authority, with introduction, notes & index / nby Danby P. Fry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if necessary, and from time to time to take the most effectual means for making their arrangements on this subject publicly known. The sixth section also con- tained a special provision with respect to the remune- ration of the medical practitioners. According to the scheme of the Act of 1853, the parent (or guardian) of every child bom after the 1st August, 1853, was required, under a penalty not ex- ceeding 20^-., to take such child (unless otherwise vac- cinated) within three (or four) months after birth, to the public vaccinator of the district, who was thereupon required to vaccinate such child, unless the child were unfit, and to give a certificate of such unfitness, or of the vaccination (whether successful or unsuccessful), as the case might be. For this latter purpose the child was to be taken to the vaccinator for inspection on the eighth day after vaccination: under a penalty of 20j-, for neglect. The certificate of unfitness was to be re- newed every two months, so long as the unfitness might last. When the vaccination was successful, a duplicate certificate was to be sent by the vaccinator to the Re- gistrar of Births and Deaths for the sub-district in which the operation was performed, who was to keep a register of all such certificates for future reference, receiving the fees specified in the Statute for every entry, search, or extract. The Registrar was also to give notice to the parent (or guardian) of every unvac- cinated child, within seven days after the registration of the birth, as to the requirements of the Act