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or, in the event of their death or inability, the person in charge of
the child, within four months, should take the child to the
appointed vaccinator, unless such parent or person should have
obtained a certificate of previous vaccination from some other
practitioner; and the vaccinator was required thereupon, or as
soon after as it might be conveniently and properly done, to
vaccinate the child. It was enacted by the third section, ' Upon
the eighth day following vaccination the father, &c., shall take or
cause to be taken the child to the vaccinator for his inspection
that he may ascertain the result of the operation.' By the fourth
section it was provided that the vaccinator was to give a certificate
of successful vaccination to the father, &c., and to transmit a
duplicate to the Registrar of Births and Deaths of the SubDistrict
in which the vaccination was performed. Section 5 made
provision for children who, in the opinion of any medical officer or
practitioner, were not in a fit and proper state to be successfully
vaccinated. In such a case the medical officer or practitioner
was to deliver a certificate to that effect, which was to remain
good for two months, and to be renewable from two months to
two months until the child should be considered fit for vaccination,
when it was to be taken to be vaccinated. So long as the
certificate or its renewal should last, it was a sufficient defence
against any complaint against the father, &c., for non-compliance
with the Act.
Then followed provisions as to the duties of the Registrar.
The Registrar of the Sub-District was to keep a register of persons
whose successful vaccination certificates had been transmitted to
him by the vaccinator. By section 9 the Registrar was required
on or within seven days from the registration of the birth of a
child to send to the father, &c., notice in a given form, to take care
that the child should be vaccinated, and of the time and place of
the attendance of the vaccinator ; and it was enacted that if after
such notice the father, &c., of the child should not cause the child
to be vaccinated, or should not on the eighth day after vaccination
take, or cause to be taken, the child for inspection, then the father,
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