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Vaccination of children under 14 years of age and enforce
???nlties for disobedience. The Registrar of the District is
???quired to furnish the Guardians of the Union, twice in the
???ar, with a list of all cases in which certificates of Vaccination
???ve not been received by him, who are forthwith to make enquiry
to the circumstances of the cases contained in the list, and, if
???cessary, proceed against the persons in default.
The regulations for securing the efficient performance of
???accination, issued by the Lords of the Privy Council, require
???at every Vaccination District shall have in it at least one public
???ation for the purpose; and that no public vaccinator shall—
???rcept for some special reason—vaccinate any person elsewhere
???an at such Station. They also forbid, except under their
???pecial authorisation, the performance of Vaccination at any
???tation oftener than once a week. If the more stringent orders
and regulations of this Act are faithfully carried out, we shall
???ossess an additional safeguard against the prevalence of this
???athsome disease, and may hope, at no distant period, to think of
small Pox as a pestilence which has disappeared from our
???and.
The disappearance of Cholera from the District enabled this
Board, last year, to disj>enso with the extra assistance which the
???xigencies of 1866 made necessary. It will therefore excite on
surprise that the sanitary work done should have been consider???ably
less than that of the year preceding. Your Inspector, however,
has displayed his usual vigilance, and by reference to the
sanitary table, you will perceive that, among other matters of
importance, 326 notices in respect of nuisances have been issued,
???65 drains, privies, and urinals, repaired and cleansed, and 30
???slaughter-houses, 32 cow houses, and 33 bakehouses periodically
inspected. It is highly probable that the recollection of the
extraordinary measures of the year 1866 exerted a beneficial
influence upon the inhabitants, and thus rendered the interfer???ence
of your Inspector less imperative than has been the case in
former years.
I have thus shortly indicated the points of interest suggested
by the records of the events and proceedings of the past year.
The favorable sanitary condition of the District may be easily
tested by an examination of the appended tables, and I trust you
will consider them sufficiently interesting for perusal and comparison.
Your courtesy and co-operation enable me, for the
twelfth time, to make the annual acknowledgment of the considerate
kindness of the Board and its officers, and with that
expression, I beg to conclude,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
ROBERT BIANCHI.