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before that date the period of 4 months from the passing of this
Act is substituted for the period of 4 months from the birth of
the child.
Section 3. An order under Section 31 of the Act of 1867
directing that a child be vaccinated, shall not be made on any
person who has previously been convicted of non-compliance with
a similar order relating to the same child.
Section 4. - No proceedings under Section 31 of the Act of
1867 shall be taken against any parent or person who has been
convicted under Section 29 of the said Act on account of the
same child, until it has reached the age of four years.
Section 5 provides that persons committed to prison on
account of non-compliance with any order or non-payment of
fines or costs under the Vaccination Acts shall be treated as
first-class misdemeanants.
Section 6 empowers the Local Government Board to make
rules and regulations with respect to the duties and remuneration
of Public Vaccinators.
Section 7 enables that Board when there is risk of outbreak
of small-pox or under other exceptional circumstances, to require
the Guardians of any Poor law Union to provide vaccination
stations for the vaccination of children with glycerinated calflymph
or other lymph, and to modify the provisions of this Act
requiring the Public Vaccinator to visit the home of the child
otherwise than on request of the parent.
Section 8 makes it the duty of the clerk of any sanitary
authority maintaining a hospital for cases of small-pox to keep a
list of the names, addresses, ages, and conditions as to vaccination
of all small-pox patients treated in the hospital, such entries to
be made on admission, and at all reasonable times to allow
searches to be made therein, and upon demand to give a copy
under his hand or under that of his deputy of every entry in the
same on payment of a fee of sixpence for each search, and
threepence for each copy.
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