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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    This Act was passed for one year only; but in' the following year it was made perpetual by the 22 and 23 Vict., c. 3, which was passed on 1st August, 1859. The Act of 1858, however, contained a clause (sec. 8) with respect to the institution of legal proceedings under the Vaccination Acts, which was repealed, or rather was allowed to expire, when the rest of the Act was made perpetual by 22 and 23 Vict, c. 3. In con- sequence of the abrogation of that clause, no specific provision existed on this point for the next two years; but in 1861 an Act (24 and 25 Vict., c. 69) was passed ■'^to facilitate proceedings before justices under the Acts relating to Vaccination, by which the Guardians (or Overseers) were empowered to appoint some person to conduct such proceedings, and were required to pay the costs out of the poor rates, on the certificate of the justices, or court, before whom the proceedings might be taken, whether such proceedings were insti-- tuted by the person so appointed, or by any registrar of births and deaths, or by any medical officer of health appointed under an Act of Parliament. Shortly after the passing of the first Act (3 and 4 Vict., c. 29), the Poor Law Commissioners issued a •circular to the several Boards of Guardians, dated 20th August, 1840, calling the attention of the Guardians to the provisions of the Act, and the steps to be taken to cariy them into execution. This circular was ac- companied by a Form of Notification in respect to the extension of Vaccination, and by a copy of a Minute of the Poor Law Commissioners with respect