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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1889.

Medical Practitioner or Chinesc Doctor during each succeed- ing 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 Chinese Doctor granting the same, and 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.

It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint some Medical Practitioner or Chinese Doctor 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 certificate in his discretion.

8. Every certificate granted 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. In the event of a Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator, being of opinion after three successive vaccina- tions made by himself that any child is insusceptible of the vaccine disease, he shall furnish the Parent or Guardian of such child, with a Certificate under his hand in the form of Schedule C, that such child is insusceptible of vaccine disease, and such Parent or Guardian shall, within three days after the date of such Certificate, lodge the same with the Registrar General.

10. 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, and the word Insusceptible opposite the name of every child who has been certified, as herein provided, to be insus- ceptible of vaccine disease.

11. There shall be kept at each local vaccination station or place appointed under the Ordinance hereby repealed or under this Ordinance a register of all persons vaccinated by a Public Vaccinator.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 entries 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.

12. In every case where after the expiration of six months from the birth of any child whether born in the Colony or not 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 or of the insuscepti- bility to 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 ten days after his receipt of such notice such Parent or Guardian shall not have presented to the Registrar General, for registration any of such Certificates, such Parent or Guardian shall on conviction before a Magistrate forfeit a sum not exceeding Five Dollars or be liable to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding ten days, and should the Parent or Guardian of such child then refuse to cause such child to be vaccinated, such Parent or Guardian shall on conviction before a Magistrate forfeit a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars or be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. Provided always that no Parent or Guardian 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.

13. Any person who shall produce or attempt to produce in himself or in any other person by inoculation with variolous matter, or by wilful exposure in variolons matter, or who shall wilfully by any other means whatsoever produce the disease of Small-pox, shall on conviction before a Ma- gistrate forfeit a sum not exceeding Five hundred dollars or be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.

Registration of Certificate under s. 7.

Certificate of insusceptibili-

ty to vaccine disease.

(Ibid 6.)

Registration of infant vaccination. (Ibid 7.)

Registration of all persons vaccinated Publicly.

Penalty for neglect to register. (Ibid B.)

Penalty for

inoculation.

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