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Section VIII. says:—
"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 in the same on payment of a fee of sixpence for each
search, and threepence for each copy."
This is an important section from a statistical point of view,
as in time it will render it possible to ascertain what percentage
of persons afflicted with small-pox have been vaccinated.
Vaccination Ordek, 1898.
This Order was issued by the Local Government Board on
October 18th, 1898, to the Board of Guardians of every Poor
Law Union in England and Wales, and to the Public
Vaccinators of the several Vaccination Districts in England
and Wales, and to all others whom it may concern.
Its provisions are put forth in view of the difficulties which
the Vaccination Act, 1898 (Section 2, Conscience Clause), has
already caused, and in view of prospective difficulties which
may arise when the new Act comes into force on January 1st,
1899.
The Order is made chiefly under Sections VI. and VII.,
Vaccination Act, 1898.
Section VI. of the Vaccination Act, 1898, states that "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."
Section VI. of the Vaccination Act of 1867 is repealed, and
the functions of the Poor Law Board set out therein with regard to
the terms of the contract to be made with the public vaccinator are
now vestei in the Local Government Board.
Section VII. provides that "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