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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Sтa MAY, 1897.

Short title.

Construction of Ordinance.

Provision for insuscepti. bility of successful

vaccination.

certificate.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend The Vaccination

Ordinance, 1890.

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- 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.

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 child a Certificate under his hand according to the form in the Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, and such Parent or Guardian shall, thenceforth, not be required to cause the child to be vaccinated.

Registration

4. Such Parent or Guardian shall, within seven days and lodging after the date of such Certifiente, 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,

aged

SCHEDULE.

1 the undersigned hereby Certify that I am of opinion that

is insusceptible of Vaccine Disease. Dated this

day of

of

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Signed, A. B..

Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator, (as case may be).

Objects and Reasons.

Ordinance 5 of 1890 made no provision for cases of in- susceptibility of successful vaccination.

Such cases, occasionally, occur and, attention having been called to the omission by the Medical Department, this Ordinance is designed to remedy the defeet.

Section 3 is taken from the Imperial Vaccination Act, 1867, section 20.

W. MEIGH GOODMAN,

A BILL

Attorney General,

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to enable the Government to pro- vide suitable Latrine accommodation for the Public.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Commeil thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Government Latrine Ordinance. 1897.

2. The expression Public Latrine” as used in this Ordinance shall include any latrine to which the public are admitted, on payment or otherwise.