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

  • Fry, Danby P. (Danby Palmer), 1818-1903.
Date:
1872
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    subsequent Reports, as well as in the Reports of the Poor Law Board. The last Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners was the fourteenth, dated December, 1847. The Poor Law Board made their first Report in December, 1848; and their last on 31st May, 1871. See also the Official Circular, 6th February, 1841, pp. 145—147, and June, 1848, pp. 254—256. In 1853, after the passing of the Act 16 and 17 Viet, c. 100, which rendered vaccination compulsory, the Poor Law Board took certain steps, which are de- scribed in their Sixth Annual Report, pp. 10—12, in the following passage:— “The other Act, namely the 16 and 17 Viet, c. 100, re- lating to vaccination, lias also proved of much importance, and has required and received much of oiu’ attention during the latter part of the year. In 1840, the Act 3 and 4 Viet., c. 29, was passed, which, •with the view of extending the practice of vaccination, re- quired Boards of Guardians in unions and parishes, and Overseers of parishes where there were no Guardians, to contract with their medical officers or with some medical practitioners for the performance of the operation of vacci- nation upon such poor pei-sons as were brought to them for the purpose, and the regulations Avere placed mider the control of the Poor LaAv Commissioners. This was the first legislative enactment upon the subject. The earliest proceedings of the Commissioners to carry into effect this enactment, Avhich Avas slightly amended by an Act in the subsequent year (4 and 5 Viet., c. 32), Avere detailed in their Seventh Annual Report, and the measures adopted by Boards of Guardians to give effect to the Act have been sIioaati in each successwe report of the Board. The Legislature during the last session rendered the vac- cination of infants compulsory upon their parents, and the