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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
International Certificates of vaccination for persons
travelling 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 may charge for issuing an International Certificate.
Yel low 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.I. , Medical Department. Unilever House. Blackfriars E.C. 4.,
and West London Designated Vaccinating Centre, 53. Great Cumberland
Place. W. 1.
An International Certificate of vaccination against yellow
fever will be supplied, after vaccination, at the Centre at which
the vaccination is done.
The Internationa] Certificates 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. Saville 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 Engl and and Wal es this is the Town Council. Urban District
Council or Rural District in whose area the Vaccinator practices,
t should.be noted that this is not necessarily the area in which
the nerson vaccinated lives.
During the year, 2891 International Certificates of Vaccination
were stamped by the Public Health Department,