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Public Vaccinator of the District in which they have to act; with whose assistance they may commonly find it in their power to arrange it with the parents of children recently vaccinated at the Public Station, that some of such children shall at the proper time be taken to places where private re-vaccinations have to be performed, so as to furnish from arm to arm any required quantity of lymph.

Generally, too, any private Medical Practitioner who, from any cause, desires to obtain extraordinary supplies of lymph, will most easily attain his object by applying to the Public Vaccinator of the District in which he resides. And as Public Vaccinators, appointed under “The Vaccination Act, 1867,” are of course free to accept payment for any extra-official work which they may be willing to undertake, Private Practitioners would probably have no difficulty in obtaining, by voluntary agreement, the assistance of some of these officers as collectors of lymph for private re-vaccination.

It is important for the public to observe that re-vaccination on a large scale is not easily conducted unless in a thoroughly systematic manner, and that individual difficulties in finding lymph for re-vaccination are inseparable from the too general practice of deferring re-vaccination to periods of panic, instead of having it proceed, as it should, regularly and uniformly, in proportion as successive numbers of population reach the proper age for its performance.

Section VIII. of “The Vaccination Act, 1867,” is as follows:—“The provisions of the contracts entered into before this Act comes into operation shall not, after the thirty-first day of December next, apply to the cases of persons who, having been previously successfully vaccinated, shall be re-vaccinated; but if the Lords of her Majesty’s Council shall have issued or shall hereafter issue regulations in respect of the re-vaccination of persons who may apply to be re-vaccinated, which such Lords are hereby authorized to do, the Guardians shall pay, in respect of every case of successful re-vaccination performed in conformity with such regulations under such contracts, or under new contracts entered into after the date hereof, a sum amounting to two-thirds of the fee payable upon each case of successful primary vaccination.”

Section IV. of the Regulations issued by the Lords of the Council in their Order of February 18, 1868, is as follows:—“The performance of re-vaccination by the Public Vaccinator on persons applying to him for that purpose shall be limited in each case by the following conditions: (1) That, so far as the Public Vaccinator can ascertain, the applicant has attained the age of fifteen years, or, if during any immediate danger of smallpox, the age of twelve years, and has not before been successfully re-vaccinated; and (2) that, in the Public Vaccinator’s judgment, the proposed re-vaccination is not for any sufficient medical reason undesirable; and (3) that the Public Vaccinator can afford vaccine lymph for the purpose without in any degree postponing the claims which are made on him for the performance of primary vaccination in this district.”

6th February, 1871.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, June 29, 1872.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified for general information, that he has appointed

E. J. MASTERS, Esq., J.P.,
G. KING, Esq., J.P.,
and R. C. REID, Esq., J.P.,

to be Members of the Grey Board of Health.

A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.

Printed by JOSEPH PHILIP KLEIN, at the “West Coast Times” Office, authorised Printer for the time being of the “County of Westland Gazette.”