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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.''
The Order consists of thirty-two Articles and five Schedules.
Article 1 provides that the validity of existing contracts
with public vaccinators, and the appointment and tenure
of office of existing vaccination officers are not interfered
with excepting that the duties and remuneration must be
in accordance with the new Order.
Article 3 deals with the remuneration of public
vaccinators, and states that—
(a.) A payment of not less than one shilling in respect of every
child whose birth shall have been registered in his district
after the Thirty-first day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight, or who shall be resident in his
district and whose birth shall have been registered in some
other district after that date, or shall not have been registered
at all, except children who shall have died or been removed
from the district before attaining the age of four months, or
who shall have been duly certified to have been successfully
vaccinated otherwise than by the Public Vaccinator, or to be
insusceptible of vaccination, or to have had small-pox,
before reaching that age, or with regard to whom a certificate
under Section 2 of the Act of 1898 is in force ;
(b) A payment of not less than five shillings in respect of every
successful primary vaccination or re-vaccination performed
by him at the home of the person vaccinated ; and
(c) A payment of not less than two shillings and sixpence in
respect of every successful primary vaccination of any
person other than a child, or of any successfull re-vaccination,
such primary vaccination or re-vaccination having been
performed by him at his surgery or elsewhere than at the
home of the person vaccinated :
Provided that no payment shall be made in respect of any
vaccination unless the same shall have been performed in accordance
with the conditions herein prescribed, nor unless the
provisions of the Vaccination Acts, 1867 to 1898, and of this
Order as to certificates and otherwise have been observed with
reference thereto: