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By section 8 it was provided that every Registrar of Births
and Deaths for any place should once at least transmit to each
Vaccination Officer a return of all births and deaths of infants
under twelve months of age, which, since the date of the last
return had been registered by him. Section 9 deals with
re-vaccination. It enacts that when the operation of re-vaccination
is performed gratuitously by a Public Vaccinator on the
application of any person, he shall deliver to such person a
notice requiring him to attend for inspection, and if that notice is
not complied with such person is rendered liable to pay to the
Guardians a fee of 2s. 6d.
Section 10 imposes a fine of 20s. on any person who
prevents a Public Vaccinator taking lymph from any child as
provided by section 17 of the principal Act. Section 11 imposes
a similar penalty on any parent who fails to produce a child when
required by summons under section 31 of the principal Act. By
the same section any complaint may be made and any information
laid at any time not exceeding twelve months from the time when
the matter of complaint or information arose, and not subsequently.
This is a new provision as to limitation. There is a
further provision as to re-vaccination in section 13 granting fees
to the medical officer of the Union if, while attending as such
medical officer upon a Small-Pox patient, he either (1) vaccinates
a person who has never been vaccinated or had Small-Pox, or (2)
re-vaccinates any person who is resident in the same house with
the person sick of the Small-Pox, and has never been re-vaccinated,
being of the age at which public re-vaccination is paid for to a
Public Vaccinator under the regulations for the time being of the
Privy Council.
By the joint effect of the Vaccination Act, 1874, the fifth
section of the Vaccination Act, 1871, and the Local Government
Act, 1871, the Local Government Board was clothed with the
same powers with respect to the Guardians and Vaccination
Officers in matters relating to vaccination as the Poor Law