Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster]
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from one another. The total area of vesiculation resulting
from the vaccination should not be less than half a square
inch."
Articles 10 to 15 inclusive deal with the appointment
of vaccination officers.
The Notice to be given by the Public Vaccinator to the
Medical Officer of Health under sub-section (4) of Section 1
of the Act of 1898 shall be in Form P. or to the like effect, as
follows: —
FORM P.
The Vaccination Acts, 1867 to 1898.
Notice from Public Vaccinator to Medical Officer of Health.
To
Medical Officer of Health of the
District.
In accordance with Section 1 (4) of the
Vaccination Act, 1898, I hereby give you notice
that I have this day postponed the vaccination of
1 the child of 2
who resides at 3 on account of
4 the condition of the house in which the
child resides.
4 the recent prevalence of infectious disease
in the district.
Dated this day of , 18 .
( Signed ) ,
Public Vaccinator of the
District.
Union.
1 Child's
name:
2 Father's, or
(if the child
is illegitimate)
Mother's name
and surname.
3 Child's
residence.
4 Strike out
that cause which
does not apply.
Article 20 deals with the remuneration of vaccination
officers, and is as follows—
(а) A payment of not less than threepence in respect of each
child entered on the Birth Lists sent to him after the
Thirty-first day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and ninety-eight, by the Registrar of Births and Deaths ;
(b) A payment of not less than ninepence in respect of the
registration by him after the same date in his vaccination