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THE VESTRY OF ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
PUBLIC NOTICE concerning
SMALL POX & VACCINATION.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT,
37, HOXTON SQUARE, May 1863.
Penalty against
Inoculation or
exposure of
persons affected
with Small-Pox
Vaccination
Penalty for
Neglecting
Vaccination
Re-Vaccination
Disabilities
attending NonVaccination
I. The Vestry having had its attention directed to the great prevalence of Small.
Pox in the Parish, has deemed it advisable to make known to the inhabitants,
the provisions now in force relative to Small-Pox and Vaccination. As those
provisions have been enacted for the common safety against a highly contagious
& dangerous disease, it concerns every one to aid in carrying them out.
II. By Clause VIII. of the 3rd and 4th Vict., cap. 29, Any person who shall wilfully
by any means whatsoever produce the disease of Small-Pox shall be liable to be
proceeded against summarily, and shall upon conviction be imprisoned in the
Common Gaol or House of Correction, for any term not exceeding One Month.
Persons going about in the public streets whilst still labouring under SmallPox
are liable to punishment.
III. By Clauses II, III, IV, of the 16th & 17th Vict., cap. 100, parents and Guardians
of children, are required to have them Vaccinated within three months
of birth; and to take the children on the eighth day following the day on
which Vaccination has been performed, to the Surgeon, in order that he may
be able to certify that the Vaccination has properly taken or otherwise.
IV. By Clause IX. of the same Act, the Registrar is directed to give to the parents
or guardians of children, within seven days after the registration of birth, a
notice enjoining them to take the children to be Vaccinated ; and if this notice
be neglected, the parents or guardians shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
Twenty Shillings.
V. The illness of a child is not held sufficient ground for neglecting or deferring
Vaccination, unless it be certified by a medical practitioner that the child is
in an unfit state to be Vaccinated, and the certificate to that effect is to be
renewed every two months until the medical practitioner shall be of opinion
that Vaccination may safely and properly be performed.
VI. It being proved that in most cases where Small-Pox has occurred after Vaccination,
the Cow-Pox had, from various causes, not taken fully, it is desirable
to submit the marks of Vaccination to a medical practitioner, with a view to
Re-Vaccination where the protection may be considered insufficient.
VII. No person is allowed to Emigrate under the provisions of the Emigration
Commissioners to a British Colony, unless it be certified by a medical practitioner
that he has been duly Vaccinated, or has had the Small-Pox. In
many Public Schools, and other establishments, a similar rule is observed.
The neglect of Vaccination may also in other ways interfere with a person's
employment or advancement in life.
III. All persons are therefore hereby cautioned as to the penalties incurred by
neglect of Vaccination; and are earnestly exhorted to immediately take all
un-vaccinated children in their care, to the Surgeon appointed as Public
Vaccinator of the District in which they reside, or to some other medical
practitioner, for the purpose of being Vaccinated.
IX. And in order further to aid the Vestry in the Prevention of Disease, it is requested
that all persons having knowledge of the outbreak of Small-Pox in
any locality, or of children being un-vaccinated, or of any other circumstance
relating to these matters, will communicate the same to the Medical Officer
of Health at the Offices of the Vestry.
The following is a list of the rublic Vaccinators of Shoreditch.
Dr. AMSDEN 1, New North Road 9 to 11, Daily.
Dr. BURCHELL 1, Kingsland Road 9 to 11, Daily.
Mr. CLARK Acton Place, Kingsland Roa 9 to 11, Daily,
Mr. COLLIER Worship Street 9 to 11, Daily.
Dr. COWARD 79, New North Road10 to 11, Daily.
Dr. GREENWOOD Queen's Road, Dalston 9 to 11, Daily.
Signed by Order of the Vestry, ROBERT BARNES, M.D.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
The Medical Officer of Healtn for Shoreditch,