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APPENDIX.
REPORT of the Medical Officer of Health on the Examination
of the arms of the children attending the London
Board Schools in the Borough with respect to their
state of Vaccination.
Resolution:—"That the Medical Officer of Health be authorised
to have all the children and young persons, whose parents raise no
objection, attending the Board Schools in the Borough, examined by
a medical man as to whether they have been vaccinated or otherwise'
and to prepare and present a report to the Borough Council as to the
result of his examination."
Gentlemen,
In reporting upon your instruction, I have in the first place briefly
to describe the circumstances which led up to the instruction.
Owing to the appearance of cases of small-pox in increasing and
threatening numbers in certain Boroughs of the Metropolis, the
London School Board, after certain representations had been made to
them from the Local Government Board, passed the following resolution:—
"That facilities be given to the Public Vaccination Officers of the Metropolis,
on the application of the proper local Authority, to enter the Schools
of the Board in infected areas, for the purpose of examining the arms
of the children, with a view to advising the parents to allow their
children to be vaccinated, provided that the School Board issue a circular
to the parents of the children asking if they have any objection
to this examination, and, in case of such objection in any particular
case, that such examination shall not take place; and the Local
Government Board, and the Public Vaccination Officers be informed
accordingly."
A copy of this resolution, together with a copy of a letter drafted
for distribution to the parents or guardians of the scholars, in order