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Number of treatments carried out during the year:-
Adults 76
Children (under 5 years) 9
Children of school age are referred to local L. C,C. School
Treatment Centres.
AUTHENTICATION OF VACCINATION AND INOCULATION
CERTIFICATES
In several parts of the world certificates of vaccination and/or
inoculations are not accepted unless they are endorsed by a Medical
Officer in the Government or Municipal Service of the country of issue.
The form of authentication which appears to be most readily accepted by
Health Authorities abroad is that given by Public Health Authorities;
whereby practitioners signatures are verified by the Medical Officer
of Health. The Minister of Health therefore has asked Local Authorities
to make arrangements under which any person who desires to have a
certificate of vaccination or inoculation for the purpose of travel
abroad may have it stamped accordingly at the office of the Health
Department.
The purpose of the authentication is to provide proof to those
Health Authorities abroad who desire it that the signature of the person
issuing the certificate is that of a registered medical practitioner.
Authenticators are not required to certify that the vaccination or
inoculation has been properly carried out or. indeed, that it has been
carried out at all; the responsibility for issuing the certificate
remains with the doctor signing it.
This does not imply any suggestion that a certificate of
vaccination or inoculation issued by a registered Medical Practitioner
requires any official supervision or control in order to be of adequate
medical value. Authentication is not a requirement of Her Majesty's
Government but the proposal is designed as a remedy for difficulties
which have in practice been met by persons from this country travelling
abroad.
During the year a total of 620 certificates of vaccination and/or
inoculation were authenticated.