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Diphtheria immunisation is the responsibility of the London County Council,
but may also be carried out by general practioners and I am indebted to
Dr. W.H.S. Wallace, Divisional Medical Officer of Division 8 for supplying me
with the above figures.
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.
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.I., Medical Department, Unilever
House, Blackfriars, E.C.4., and West London Designated Vaccinating Centre,
53, Great Cumberland Place, W.l.
An International Certificate of vaccination against yellow fever will be
supplied, after vaccination, at the Centre at which the vaccination is done.
The International Certificates for smallpox and cholera (for completion by
person's own doctor) must be obtained by the traveller himself and taken to
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.l.
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 Hall, 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, 1884 International Certificates of Vaccination were stamped
by the Public Health Department