APPENDIX. VACCINATION. 3 & 4 VICT. CAP. XXIX. An Act to extend the Practice of Vaccination. [23rd July, 1840.] contract with officers, or tioners, for "WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the practice of vacci- Poor law nation:" Be it therefore enacted, that from and after the guardians to passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the guardians of their medical every parish or union, and for the overseers of every parish in other mewhich relief to the poor shall not be administered by guar- dical practidians, in England and Wales, and they are hereby directed, to vaccination. contract with the medical officers of their several unions or parishes respectively, or with any legally qualified medical practitioner or practitioners (a), for the vaccination of all persons resident in such unions or parishes respectively: Provided always, that it shall be a condition of every such contract that the amount of the remuneration to be received under the same shall depend on the number of persons who, not having been previously successfully vaccinated, shall be successfully vaccinated by such medical officers or practitioners respectively so contracting (b). II. And be it further enacted, that in making such ar- Guardians rangements as may be required for the execution of this Act, (a) The 21 & 22 Vict. c. 90, s. 34, declares that any person registered under that Act shall be deemed a legally qualified medical practitioner. (b) See 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, s. 6, post. to conform to the regu poor law commis sioners. lations of the such guardians and overseers, and all other officers engaged in the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, shall conform to the regulations which may from time to time be issued by the poor law commissioners in that behalf (e), which regulations the said commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make and issue. Medical offi cers to report the number of persons vaccinated, &c. Copies of contracts to be sent to commissioners. Annulling of contracts. III. And be it further enacted, that such medical officers or practitioners shall make a report to such guardians or overseers from time to time of the number of persons successfully vaccinated by them respectively, and shall make such further report, with respect to the persons so vaccinated, as such guardians and overseers, under the direction of the poor law commissioners, shall require. IV. And be it enacted, that such guardians or overseers shall forthwith, after the conclusion of any such contract as before mentioned, transmit a copy thereof to the poor law commissioners. V. And be it enacted, that if such commissioners shall not annul such contract within fourteen days from the receipt thereof such contract shall thenceforth not be liable to be annulled by such commissioners. VI. & VII. relate to Ireland. Persons ino eulating or otherwise VIII. And be it further enacted, that any person who shall from and after the passing of this Act produce or attempt to producing produce in any person, by inoculation with variolous matter, be subject to or by wilful exposure to variolous matter, or to any matter, one month's article, or thing impregnated with variolous matter, or wilimprison small pox to ment. fully by any other means whatsoever produce the disease of small pox in any person in England, Wales, or Ireland, shall be liable to be proceeded against and convicted summarily before any two or more justices of the peace in petty sessions assembled, and for every such offence shall, upon conviction, (c) See 21 & 22 Vict. c. 97, s. 2, ante, p. 220, which empowers the Privy Council to prescribe regulations. be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding one month. words. IX. And be it further enacted, that every word in such part Interpretaof this Act as refers to England and Wales shall be interpreted tion of in like manner as such word is directed to be interpreted in an Act passed in the fourth and fifth year of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amend- 4 & 5 Will, 4, ment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the c. 76. Poor in England and Wales." 4 & 5 VICT. CAP. XXXII. An Act to amend an Act to extend the Practice of Vaccination. [21st June, 1841.] c. 29. vaccination "WHEREAS an Act was passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to extend 3 & 4 Vict. the Practice of Vaccination;' but no express provision was thereby made for defraying the expenses of carrying the same into execution;" be it therefore declared and enacted, that it Expenses of shall be and be deemed to have been lawful for the guardians to be defrayof every parish or union in England and Ireland, and the ed out of the overseers of every parish in England, by whom the contracts poor rates. for vaccination may respectively be or have been made under the provisions of the said Act, to defray the expenses incident to the execution of the said Act out of any rates or monies which may come or may have come into their hands respectively for the relief of the poor. chial relief. II. And be it further declared and enacted, that the vacci- Vaccination nation, or surgical or medical assistance incident to the vacci- declared not to be paronation, of any person resident in any union or parish, or of any of his family, under the said Act, shall not be considered to be parochial relief, alms, or charitable allowance to such person, and that no such person shall by reason of such vaccination or assistance be deprived of any right or privilege, or be subject to any disability or disqualification whatsoever. 16 & 17 VICT. CAP. C. An Act further to extend and make compulsory the Practice of Vaccination. "WHEREAS an Act was passed in the 3 & 4 Vict. reign of Her present Majesty, intituled c. 29. c. 32. [20th August, 1853.] fourth year of the An Act to extend the Practice of Vaccination: and whereas an Act was passed 4 & 5 Vict. in the fifth year of the same reign, intituled An Act to amend an Act to extend the Practice of Vaccination :' and whereas it is expedient that the practice of vaccination should be still further extended:" Be it therefore enacted: Parishes or unions to be divided into districts for tion, and places appointed for ance of I. Within six weeks after the passing of this Act the guardians of every parish or union, and the overseers of every parish in which relief to the poor shall not be administered by the purpose of vaccina- guardians, in England and Wales, shall, subject to the approval of the poor law board, divide such parish or union, if need be, into convenient districts for the purpose of affording increased the perform facilities for the vaccination of the poor, and shall appoint a vaccination. convenient place in each such district for the performance of such vaccination, and shall take the most effectual means for giving from time to time to all persons resident within such district due notice of the days and hours at which the medical officer or practitioner contracted with for such purpose will attend at such place to vaccinate all persons not already successfully vaccinated who may then appear there, and also of the days and hours at which such medical officer or practitioner will attend at such place to inspect the progress of such vaccination in the persons so vaccinated. Parents and guardians of children born after II. The father or mother of every child born in England or Wales after the first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three shall within three 1853, to have calendar months after the birth of the said child, or in the such children event of the death, illness, absence, or inability of the father 1st August, vaccinated or four within three and mother, then the person who shall have the care, nurture, or custody of the said child shall within four calendar months after the birth of such child, take or cause to be taken the said child to the medical officer or practitioner appointed in months after birth. the union or parish in which the said child is resident according to the provisions of the first-recited Act for the purpose of being vaccinated, unless he shall have been previously vaccinated by some duly qualified medical practitioner, and the vaccination duly certified, and the said medical officer or practitioner so appointed shall and he is hereby required thereupon, or as soon after as it may conveniently and properly be done, to vaccinate the said child. Children to be taken for inspection by officer on III. Upon the eighth day following the day on which any child has been vaccinated as aforesaid the father or mother, or other person having the care, nurture, or custody of the said medical child, shall again take or cause to be taken the said child eighth day to the medical officer or practitioner by whom the operation after the operation. was performed, in order that such medical officer or practitioner may ascertain by inspection the result of such operation. successful vaccination vered. IV. Upon and immediately after the successful vaccination Certificate of of any child the medical officer or practitioner who shall have performed the operation shall deliver to the father or mother to be deliof the said child, or to the person who shall have the care, nurture, or custody of the said child, a certificate under his hand, according to the form of schedule herein-after inserted, marked (A.), that the said child has been successfully vaccinated, and shall also transmit a duplicate of the said certificate to the registrar of births and deaths of the sub-district in which the operation was performed; And such certificate shall, without further proof, be admissible as evidence of the successful vaccination of such child in any information or complaint which shall be brought against the father or mother of the said child, or against the person who shall have had the care, nurture, or custody of such child as aforesaid, for non-compliance with the provisions of this Act. be not in a V. If any medical officer or practitioner shall be of opinion If the child that any child is not in a fit and proper state to be success- fit state for fully vaccinated, he shall thereupon and immediately deliver, vaccination, without fee or reward, to the father or mother of such child, officer to or the person having the care, nurture, or custody of the said deliver a the medical |