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Infection through time: Vaccination request

Vaccination request for Lizzie Wozencraft [Shropshire Archives]

The VACCINATION ACTS, 1867 and 1871
NOTICE OF THE REQUIREMENT OF VACCINATION

I the under signed, hereby give you Notice to have child named 'Lizzie Rose Wozencraft' whose birth is now registered, vaccinated by a Public Vaccinator or some other Medical Practitioner, pursuant to the provisions of the Vacination Acts; and that in default of your doing so, you will be liable to the penalties thereby imposed for neglect of those provisions

These Acts require every child to be Vaccinated before it is three months old, or at the next Public Vaccination held in the District after the child has attained that age. The Vaccination may, however, be postponed by the Medical Certificate, if the child be not in a fit state to be Vaccinated.

...After the vaccination has been performed the child must be inspected by the Vaccinator, in order that, if the operation has been successful, he may fill up and sign the requisite certificate (Form D). When the vaccination has been performed by a Public Vaccinator, the child must be taken to him for inspection at the appointed hour on the same day in the following week.

[Shropshire Archives]