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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
International Certificates of vaccination for persons
travel ling to certain countries abroad are required in respect of
Smallpox, Yellow Fever and Cholera.
Vaccination against any disease other than yellow fever can
be done by a person's own doctor, or exceptionally (by arrangement)
at a hospital. So long as vaccination is done under the National
Health Service, whether by a person's own doctor or at a hospital,
no charge may be made for it, but in either case the doctor
concerned may charge for issuing an Internationa] Certificate.
Yellow fever vaccination must, for international and technical
reasons, be done only at a Centre designated by the Government ;
in London the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 4 St. Pancras Way,
N. W. 1.
An Internationa] Certificate of vaccination against yellow
fever will be supplied, after vaccination, at the Centre at which
the vaccination is done.
The International forms for smallpox and cholera (for completion
by the person's own doctor) must be obtained by the traveller
himself and taken to the doctor : it is NOT for the doctor, or a
Local Authority, or their Medical Officer of Health, to supply
them. The forms can usually be obtained by the traveller from the
Company arranging his transport, or he can get them from the
Ministry of Health, Savile Row, London W.1.
After completion by the Vaccinator, certificates must be
franked with an approved stamp.
Approved stamps have been prescribed for the United Kingdom.
If the Vaccinator is not himself an authorised user of a stamp,
the person vaccinated must take or send the certificate for
stamping to a Local Authority.
In England and Wales this is the Town Council, Urban District
Council or Rural District in whose area the Vaccinator practices.
It should be noted that this is not necessarily the area in which
the person vaccinated lives.
During the year, 1893 International Certificates of Vaccination
were stamped by the Public Health Department.