21 & 22 VIC. c. 64, VACCINA 7. VACCINATION ACTS. 21 & 22 VICT. CAP. 64. TION ACT, An Act to make further Provision for the Practice 1858. of Vaccination in Ireland. [2nd August, 1858.] c. 68. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty, 14 & 15 Vic. intituled An Act to provide for the better Distribution, Support, and Management of Medical Charities in Ireland, and to amend an Act of the eleventh year of Her Majesty, to provide for the execution of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland, it is provided that the Medical Officer of every district constituted under the said Act shall and he is thereby required to vaccinate all persons who may come to him for that purpose, subject to such regulations as may be issued by the Poor Law Commissioners in that behalf: And whereas it is expedient to make further provision for vaccination in the dispensary districts in Ireland: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Dispensary may divide dispensary disticts, and require Medical Officer to attend for 1. As soon as may be after the passing of this Act, the Committee of Management of every dispensary district in Ireland shall, subject to the approbation of the Commissioners, divide such dispensary district into so many vaccination districts as they may deem advisable and necesvaccination. Sary, and shall report such districts to the Commissioners for their approval, and shall require the Medical Officer of such district to attend at some convenient place within each such vaccina purposes of a 14 & 15 Vic. c. 68, § 13 (p. 208). tion district, to be approved of by the said Committee, at such times as the said Committee may fix or approve; and the said Medical Officer shall and he is hereby required to vaccinate all persons resident in his district who may come to him for that purpose, or whom he may be requested to vaccinate, being fit subjects for vaccination, subject to such regulations as may be issued by the Commissioners in that behalf. 21 & 22 Vic. c. 64, VACCINA TION ACT, 1858. Officers to be successful cases of 2. The Board of Guardians shall pay to each Medical sach Medical Officer, in addition to any salary or paid for allowance payable to him, the sum of one pound for every twenty cases of successful vaccination vaccination. performed by him in each year. Officers to number of vaccinated. 3. The Medical Officer of each such district Medical shall make a report to the Committee of Manage- report ment, from time to time, of the number of persons persons successfully vaccinated by him in each year, under successfully the provisions of this Act, and such report shall be made in such form and shall contain such further particulars as the Commissioners shall direct, and shall be transmitted by the Committee to the Board of Guardians, and recorded by the Guardians on their minutes. be charged divisions. 4. The payments to be made to the Medical Expenses to Officer under the provisions of this Act, and all to electoral other expenses incidental to the performance of vaccination under this Act in any dispensary district, shall be charged to the electoral divisions comprising such dispensary district, in the same manner as all charges incidental to medical relief in the district. ceedings are against per 5. And whereas by an Act passed in the third Where proand fourth years of the reign of Her Majesty, taken by chapter twenty-nine, it is enacted that any person Guardians who shall produce or attempt to produce in any sons inocuperson by inoculation with variolous matter, or lating, &c., by wilful exposure to variolous matter, or to any to be paid matter, article, or thing impregnated with vario- rates. lous matter, or wilfully by any other means whatsoever produce the disease of small-pox in any This section is repealed and other provisions substituted for it by the 5th section of the 26th & 27th Vic. c. 52. (See p. 554.) their costs c. 58. person, shall be liable to be proceeded against and Convicted summarily before any two or more Justices of the Peace in Petty Sessions: Be it enacted, That in any case in which any proceedings shall have been taken or instituted by or under the directions of the Board of Guardians of any union in Ireland under the said recited provision, it shall be lawful for the Board of Guardians to pay the costs of such proceedings out of the rates of the union at large. 26 & 27 VICT. CAP. 52. An Act to further extend and make compulsory 14 & 15 Vic. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for the better Distribution, Support, and Management of Medical Charities in Ireland, and to amend an Act of the Eleventh Year of Her Majesty, to provide for the Execution of the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, it is provided that the Medical Officer of every district constituted under the said Act shall and he is thereby required to vaccinate all persons who may come to him for that purpose, subject to such regulations as may be issued by the Poor Law Commissioners in that behalf; and by another Act, passed in the twenty-first and twenty-second 1 & 22 Vic. years of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to make further Provision for the Practice of Vaccination in Ireland, it is provided that the Committee of Management of every dispensary district in Ireland shall, subject to the approbation of the Commissioners, divide such dispensary district into so many vaccination districts as they may deem advisable and necessary, and shall report such .64. a The Act here recited, 3 & 4 Vic. c. 29, was repealed by the 30 & 31 Vic. c. 84; but the provision rendering persons guilty of practising inoculation is re-enacted by the 31 & 32 Vic. c. 87, sec. 4 (p. 559). c. 52, VACCINATION ACT, 1863. districts to the Commissioners for their approval, 26 & 27 VIC. and shall require the Medical Officer of such district COMPULSORY to attend at some convenient place within each vaccination district to be approved of by the said Committee, at such times as the said Committee may fix or approve; and the said Medical Officer is thereby required to vaccinate all persons resident in his district, who may come to him for that purpose, or whom he may be requested to vaccinate, being fit subjects for vaccination, subject to such regulations as may be issued by the Commissioners in that behalf: And whereas it is expedient that the practice of vaccination in Ireland should be still further extended: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same: children born such children within six birth. 1. The father or mother of every child born in Parents and Ireland after the first day of January one thousand guardians of eight hundred and sixty-four, or in the event of after 1st Jan. the death, illness, absence, or inability of the 1864, to have father and mother, then the person who shall have vaccinated the care, nurture, or custody of the said child, months after shall, as soon as may be practicable, and within six calendar months after the birth of such child, take or cause to be taken the said child to the Medical Officer of the dispensary district in which the said child is resident, 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 shall, and he is hereby required thereupon, or as soon after as it may conveniently and properly be done, to vaccinate the said child: Provided that in the vaccination of children who are inmates of the workhouse or other public or charitable institution, the Master, Matron, or Chief Officer of the workhouse or other such institution, shall take the steps required to be taken under the provisions of this Act by the father or mother of the child, or other person having the care, nurture, or custody thereof. c. 52. TION ACT, 1863. Children to be taken for by Medical inspection Officer on eighth day after the Certificate of successful to be delivered. 26 & 27 VIC. 2. Upon the eighth day following the day on COMPULSORY which any child has been vaccinated as aforesaid, VACCINA- the father or mother, or other person having the care, nurture, or custody of the said child, shall again take or cause to be taken the said child to the Medical Officer by whom the operation was performed, in order that such Medical Officer may ascertain by inspection the result of such operation. 3. Upon and immediately after the successful operation. vaccination of any child, the Medical Officer or practitioner who shall have performed the operation vaccination shall deliver to the father or mother of 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)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 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: Provided that if the Medical Officer of any dispensary district is also the Registrar of that district, it shall be sufficient for him to sign one certificate, to be delivered to the father or mother, or other person as aforesaid, and to register the fact of such vaccination in the manner hereinafter provided. If the child state for vaccination, 4. If any Medical Officer or practitioner shall be not in a fit be of opinion that any child is not in a fit and proper state to be successfully vaccinated, he shall thereupon and immediately deliver, without fee or reward, to the father or mother of such child, or that effect, to the person having the care, nurture, or custody of the said child, a certificate under his hand, accord the Medical Officer to deliver a certificate to be in force for two See form (p. 557). |