View report page

36
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
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, Alexander Fleming House, Elephant and Castle, S.E.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 Hall, Urban District Council of
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 3,152 International Certificates of Vaccination were stamped
by the Public Health Department.