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SMALLPOX
No case of smallpox was notified during the year.
Notifications were received from the Health Authorities at Ports and Airports
concerning 36 persons who had arrived in this country from abroad
without valid certificates of vaccination. Of these 35 were from areas where
smallpox is endemic, 1 only from locally infected area. All, with the exception
of two persons who were untraceable, were placed under surveillance
for 14 days from the dates of their arrival.
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation
Arrangements continued for the authentication by the Medical Officer
of Health of the signatures of doctors on certificates of vaccination and
inoculation for travellers from this country going abroad, as required by
the International Sanitary Regulations. During the year ending December,
1969, over 3,000 vaccination certificates were dealt with.
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