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4.—No proceedings under section thirty.one of the Vaccination Act of
1867 shall be taken against any parent or person who has been convicted
under section twenty.nine of the said Act on account of the
same child, until it has reached the age of four years.
5.—Persons committed to prison on account of non.compliance with any
order or non.payment of fines or costs under the Vaccination Acts
shall be treated in the same way as first.class misdemeanants.
6.—The Local Government Board may make rules and regulations with
respect to the duties and remuneration of public vaccinators, whether
under contracts made before or after the passing of this Act.
7.—The Local Government Board may by order, if in their opinion it is
expedient by reason of serious risk of outbreak of small.pox or of other
exceptional circumstances, require the Guardians of any Poor Law
Union to provide vaccination stations for the vaccination of children
with glycerinated calf lymph or such other lymph as may be issued by
the Local Government Board, and modify as respects the area to which
the order applies, and during the period for which it is in force,
the provisions of this Act requiring the public vaccinator to visit
the home of the child, otherwise than on request of the parent.
8.—The clerk of any sanitary authority which shall maintain a hospital
for the treatment of small.pox patients, shall keep a list of the names,
addresses, ages, and condition as to vaccination of all small.pox patients
treated in the hospital, such entries to be made on admission, and shall
at all reasonable times allow searches to be made therein, and upon
demand give a copy under his hand or under that of his deputy, of
every entry of the same on payment of a fee of sixpence for each
search, and threepence for each copy.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN F. J. SYKES,
Medical Officer of Health.