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Shoreditch 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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3. That the Registrars be required every month to furnish to the
Public Vaccinators a list of those children who have attained the age
of four months and concerning whom no Certificate of Vaccination has
been returned. That the Medical Officer of Health be empowered to
inspect these lists.
4. That the Public Vaccinators be required to visit the parents or
guardians of children thus indicated to them by the Registrars, for the
purpose of vaccinating such children. That the Public Vaccinator
shall make a return to the Registrar specifying the cases in which he
shall have performed vaccination ; also the cases in which vaccination
was not carried out, and the reason why it was not.
5. That the Registrars be instructed to apply for a summons
against those parents or guardians who may be returned by the Public
Vaccinators as having refused to allow the children under their care
to be vaccinated.
6. That the Registrars be instructed to proceed in like manner
against those persons who being of age refuse to be vaccinated, or who
being parents or guardians refuse to allow children under their care, irrespective
of the age of such children, to be vaccinated; and whose names
may be returned by the Medical Officers of Health, Poor-Law Surgeons,
or Public Vaccinator, or other Registered Medical Practitioner.
7. That the Medical Officer of Health, where one is appointed, or
the Public Vaccinators where there is no Medical Officer of Health, shall
be empowered once or oftener in every year to visit every school, public
or private, in his district, for the purpose of determining what children
require to be vaccinated. That in such visits the Medical Officer of
Health shall, in the case of Public Schools, be accompanied by the Public
Vaccinator, who shall vaccinate the unprotected children at the time of
visitation or as soon after as convenient. That in the case of Private
Schools, the Medical Officer of Health or Public Vaccinator be accompanied
by a registered medical practitioner indicated by the master or
other authority of the school, if desired ; and that the practitioner so
designated shall vaccinate the children requiring protection. That in all
cases the practitioner who performs the vaaccination shall be required to
make the usual returns to the Registrars.