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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH MAY, 1897.
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No. 4 OF 1897.
An Ordinance to amend The Vaccination
Ordinance, 1890.
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
[27th May, 1897.]
Short title.
Construction
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Vaccination Ordinance, 1897.
2. This Ordinance shall be construed as one with Or- of Ordinance. dinance No. 5 of 1890, in this Ordinance referred to as the principal Ordinance, and that Ordinance and this may be cited together as The Vaccination Ordinances 1890 and 1897.
Provision for insuscepti- bility of successful
vaccination.
Registration. and lodging
certificate.
3. If any Public Vaccinator or Medical Practitioner shall find that a child whom he has three times unsuccessfully vaccinated is insusceptible of successful vaccination, or that a child brought to him for vaccination has already had the small-pox, he shall deliver to the Parent or Guardian of such ebild a Certificate under his hand according to the form in the Schedule bereto, or to the like effect, and such Parent or Guardian shall, thenceforth, not be required to cause the child to be vaccinated.
4. Such Parent or Guardian shall, within seven days after the date of such Certificate, lodge the same with the Registrar General, and that officer shall enter in the Re- gistry of Births kept by him the word "Insusceptible' opposite the name of the child in respect of which such Certificate is given, and the notice mentioned in section. eleven of the principal Ordinance shall not be served by the Registrar General.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th day of May, 1897.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 27th day of May, 1897.
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J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
I the undersigned hereby Certify that I am of opinion that
is insusceptible of Vaccine Discuse.
Dated this
day of
of
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Signed, A. B.,
Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator, (as case may be).