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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND MARCH, 1890.
6. Every Parent or Guardian of a child resident within the Colony, after the passing of this Ordinance, if such child be six months or more than six months old, and bas not been already successfully vaccinated, shall cause such child to be vaccinated by a Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator, and such Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator shall, upou personal inspection of the successful vaccination of such child, furnish the Parent or Guardian with a certificate of the successful vaccination. of such child in the form of Schedule A hereto, and such Parent or Guardian shall, within three days after the date thereof, lodge such Certificate with the Registrar General. For the purpose of this section, a parent or guardian of a child shall be deemed to be at any time resident within the Colony, if he has had his habitual place of abode in the Colony for 6 months then next preceding.
7. It ally Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator shall be of opinion that any child is not a fit and proper subject to be successfully vaccinated, he shall thereupon deliver to the Parent or Guardian of such child, a Certi- ficate under his hand in the form of Schedule B, that such child is unfit for successful vaccination and such Certificate shall remain in force for two months from its delivery as aforesaid, and if such child be not successfully vaccinated at the termination of such period of two months, then the Certificate on the application of such person or such Parent or Guardian shall be renewed by such Medical Prac- titioner or Chinese Doctor during each succeeding period of two months until such child shall have been successfully vaccinated, and such renewal shall be endorsed on the certificate and dated as of the date of such renewal and shall be signed by the Medical Practitioner or Public Vac- cinator granting the same, and the production of such Cer- tificate of unfitness for successful vaccination shall be a sufficient defence against any complaint which may be brought against such Parent or Guardian for non-compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of the non- vaccination of such child.
Subject to any existing appointment it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint some Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator whose duty it shall be to examine gratuitously children on whose behalf are claimed certi- ficates of unfitness for successful vaccination under this section and to grant or withhold such certificate in bis discretion.
8. Every certificate grauted under the preceding section shall immediately on the granting or any renewal thereof be brought by the Parent or Guardian of the child to the Registrar General for registration and he shall enter the par- ticulars of the same in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.
9. The Registrar General shall enter in the Registry of Births kept by him the word Vaccinated opposite the name of every child whose vaccination has been certified. 10. There shall be kept at each local vaccination station or place appointed under the Ordinance hereby repealed or under this Ordinance a register of all persons vaccinated by a Public Vaccinator. The cutries in such Register to be called the "The Public Vaccinators' Register" shall be made at the time of vaccination by the Public Vaccinator according to the form and particulars in Schedule D hereto. And the Public Vaccinator at each station shall once in every month cause a return to be made to the Registrar General of all entries in the Public Vaccinators' Register at his station and the Registrar General shall carefully preserve the same,
11. Where any child after six months from its birth, whether born within the Colony or not, is found within the Colony, and the Parent or Guardian of such child has failed to exhibit to the Registrar General a certificate of the Vaccination or of the unfitness for Vaccination of such child, the Registrar General shall serve on such Parent or Guardian, as the case may be, a written notice in the form of Schedule E, and if within one month after his receipt of such notice such Parent or Guardian shall not have pro- duced to the Registrar General a proper Certificate under this Ordinance or the Ordinance hereby repealed, or in case the child is alleged to have been vaccinated prior to the 4th February 1888 shall not by reasonable evidence satisfy the Registrar General of the vaccination of such child, such Parent or Guardian shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not execeding Five Dollars and should the Parent or Guardian of such child then refuse
Children of 6 months and more to be vaccinated (Loid 4.)
Cartificate of unfitness for successful vaccination. (Ibid 5.)
Registration of ertificate nuder s. 7.
Registration of child vaccinations. (Ibid 7.)
Registration
of all persons vaccinated
T'ublicly.
Penalty for neglect to register. (İbid 8.)
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