VACCINATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 889, 3 October 1881, Page 2

VACCINATION.

;"/ii''';!' ; '!.ii . * , The, following instructions usued by the Registrar-General to public .vaccinators :-? = '•: "i . ...'•:■-*;

With a view to affordinggreater encouragement, for. the vaccination and re.vaccination of persons over 14 years of age, ■ the government has decided to extend'to-such ■ of'itiose persons! afmay be desirous of taking advantage'thereof the privilege of; free vaccinatiorij'and to sanction the. payment to public vaccinators of a fee of 2s'6d for each succe.ssful case of vaccination per'ormedby them on any person above 14 years' of age, wljaii such operation'may" hot be, or have'Mb, otherwise paid for. y Every child admitted to any'' school which shall be maintained in whole or in part by grant, or from rates, orariy public funds, or by any endowments, whether colonial, provincial, municipal, or district, shall be vaccinated by a Public Vaccinator, unless suoh child shall'have been previously vaccinated. ' j,^ : ; jlnthe case of persons above the age of sixteen, the examination shall-be eoriv ( w* •ted by a legally-qualified medical practitioner, and the person, if necessary, be vaccinated by him. ; , . ■■■ V, -,• > ? It is the. desire of "thef that the above provision of trie'Aot shall be carried out, and you- are therefore requested (writes the Registrar General) to take the necessary; steps to vaccinate those children'attending any'subh's'cho'ol, as may be included in the terms of the Act, who have not been previously ,vacoi» naM/i J' -.■■"' ::r { I,'{')aH I enolose a list ot the public schools in yours and adjoining districts. ' J You will be able to ascertain fromlooal enquiry which of them are in. your district, the boundniys of which"are coterminous with thow of the' Registration of Births and Deaths, District, and: can'be ascertained on inquiry af fhe offloe pf fl}» Registrar of Birfhg and Deaths. 1 You should then put yoipelf in cpmtnqnjoar lion with the School Committees or with the Schoolmaster, and arrangV.for avisit by yourself to the soliodl ae aninspection of the children, and for the vaccination of such of them as have not previously-been. vaccinated. . * ; :•■'.-.,.•"'

In the event of any objeotion r been raised to the operation of vaccihation'by either the children or the parents or guar- \ diansof any children, you should,' if you have reason to bolieve that there has not been any previous vaccination, either yourself issue a notice ao prescribed by section 155 of " The Public Health Act, 1876," or report the case to the Kegißtrav and Vaccination Inspector, with a request that he will issue the notice.

Section 155 reads as follows ; " It sljall be lawful for any 1 Registrar, pr.for any Buhlfo Yaceinator, or for any Vaccination Inspector, ajs jrjch last aforesaid is hereby required, to causa a notice in the form in the Seventh Schedule to this. Act to be handed to tb.it parent or other pewon having the custody of any unvaccinated child over the age of six months and under the ago of fourteen years resident within" h'is district! If after sucli notice'suoh 1 parent m other person, as the case tfay be, shall negleot for a period of one rnbnth to cause suoh child to be vaccinated,'siich parent or person so offending shall.forfeit a sum not exceeding forty j|jilliq;. s .".;:; If any aM necessary, action should I, takon, either by yourself or the Registrar, -,, n d 8r , ect i fin U5 of Act, to have the p M . en t and child summoned before a Jus^ e of-Peace-the child then examjned, in d ( if no t pra ., nously vacciqated, ar, ordfe qf fl,a Jniticj' for. Biieh vaccination obtaineti,' '" ' *' It would be wpllifyou couli arrange with the School Committee to %4ls niahed to you periodically a lisfi ot%ti cbildreq admitted within certain who have notbeeq vaccinat ; «d,.in. i ord« that steps may he taken, by issue of notice or otherwise, to iqatire continuous''• vaccination,

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, Wji, R. E. Brown, Registrar.General, ThePublio Vaccinator, ~., ..,