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Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation - Authentication - Ministry of Health
Circular 60/48
Applications for authentication to be dealt with by the Medical Officer of Health
numbered 730 as against 802 for the previous year. The applications comprise requests for
authentication of International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation against smallpox,
cholera, typhoid, etc., and constitute a substantial item of work. The certificates,
of course, are required for travel abroad.
Measles and Whooping Cough
Measles and Whooping Cough became generally notifiable in London at the end of 1939,
Prior to this there was only a limited notification.