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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH MAY, 1890.

Certificate of unfitness for

successfu} Vaccination.

Registration of ertificate under a. 7.

Registration of child

vaccinations.

Registration

of all persoDE vaccinated Publicly.

Penalty for neglect to register.

Previso.

Penalty for Inoculation.

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 seven days after the date thereof, lodge such Certificate with the Registrar General, who shall preserve the same.

7. If any Medical Practitioner or Publie 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. If such child be not successfully vaccinated at the termination of such period of two months, then the Certificate on the application of such Parent or Guardian shall be renewed by a Medical Practitioner or Public Vac- cinator 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 Vaccinator granting the further Certificate. The production of such Certificate 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.

It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint some Medical Practitioner or Publie Vaccinator whose duty it shall be to examine gratuitously children on whose behalf are claimed certificates of unfitness for successful vaccination under this section and to grant or withhold such certificates in his discretion.

8. Every certificate granted under the preceding section shall on the granting and upon any renewal thereof be brought within seven days by the Parent or Guardian of the child to the Registrar General for registration and he shall enter the particulars 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 this Ordinance, a Register of all persons vaccinated by a Public Vaccinator. Such Register shall be called "The Public Vaccinator's Register" and the entries therein shall be made at the time of Vaccination by the Public Vaccinator according to the form and particulars in Schedule ✔ hereto. The Public Vaccinator at each station shall, once in every month, cause a return to be made of all such entries to the Registrar General who shall preserve the same.

11. Where any child after six months from its birth, whether born within the Colony or not, is found to be re- sident within the Colony, and the Parent or Guardian of such child has failed to satisfy the Registrar General of the successful Vaccination or of the unfitness for Vac- cination 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 D. If within one month after his receipt of such notice such Parent or Guardian shall not have produced to the Registrar General a proper Certificate such Parent or Guardian shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding Five Dollars and should the Parent or Guardian of such child afterwards continue to refuse or neglect to cause such child to be vaccinated, such Parent or Guardian shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars. Provided always that no Parent or Guardiau shall be liable to any penalty or punishment for not having his child vaccinated at any time between the 1st May and the 30th of September in any year both days inclusive.

12. Any person who shall produce or attempt to produce in himself or in any other person by inoculation with variolous matter, orby wilful exposure to variolous matter, or who shall wilfully by any other meaus whatsoever produce the disease of Small-pox, shall on conviction before a Ma- gistrate be liable to a fiue not exceeding Two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

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