The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck.

Date:
1886
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Credit: The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    since the last visitation of the Visitors; and also all such other documents as the Visitors shall require to be produced to them ; and the Visitors shall sifui the said books as having been i)roduced to them. Any Visitor may, at any hour of the day or night, enter and inspect any asylum, and the patients confined therein. Viait(iv}i may order nischarye of PatUnitn.—kny three of the Visitors of anv asjdum may, by writing under their hands, order the discharge of any perwm detaineii in such asylum, whether such pci-son be recovered or not; and any two of the V^Lsitors. with the advice in wr iting of the Resident Medical Officer of such a.sylum, may dts- charge any person detained therein as aforesaid, or jiermit any such persTtn to be absent from the asylum upon trial for such period as such visitors think fit. And on application being made to the Visitors of any asylum by any relative or friend of a pauper lunatic confined therein, requiring that he may be delivered over to the cu.stody and care of such relative or fi-icnd, any two of the Visitors aforesaid may, if they think fit, and upon the undertaking, in writing, of such relative or fi-iend, to the satisfaction of such Visitors, that such lunatic shall be ijrojjerly taken care of, and shall be prevented from doing injury to himself and others, dis- charge such lunatic. THE VACCINATION ACT (1882). (4.5 ami 46 Via., No. 248.) Vacoine Matter.—The Vaccination Officer shall procure and preserve a sufficient supply of animal and humanised l3Tnph, and shall furnish the same, without charge, to the Public Vaccinators and Medical Practitioners who shall ap])ly for the same. Children to he Vaccinated.—The parent of every child born in the colony shall, within six months after the birth of such child, take or cause the same to be taken to the Public Vaccinator for the district, for the purpose of being vaccinated, unless such child shall have been previously vaccinated by some Medical Practitioner, or by some other-Public Vaccinator ; and the said Public Vaccinator shall thereupon vaccinate the said child. Insjxxtion of Vaccination.—Upon the same day in the following week when the operation shall have been perfoi-med by the Public Vaccinator, the parent shall again take the child, or cause it to be taken, to him, that he may inspect it and ascertain the result of the operation, and if he see fit, take from such child lymph for the performance of other Vaccinations ; and in the event of the Vaccination being unsuccessful, such parent shall, if the Vaccinator so dhect, cause the child to be forthwith again vaccinated and insjjcctcd as on the previous occasion. UnfincK.t for Vaccination.—If any Public Vaccinator or Medical Practitioner shall be of opinion that the child is not in a fit or proper state to be successfully vaccinated, he shall forthwith deliver to the parent a certificate uiider his hand that the child is then in a state ranfit for successful vaccination, which certificate shall remain in force for two months, and shall be renewable for successive periods of two months, until a Public Vaccinator or Medical Practitioner shall deem the child to be in a fit state for successful Vaccination, when the child shall be vaccinated, and the certificate of successful Vaccination duly given if warranted by the result. Sitcce.mve Certifeate.t.-—At or before the end of each successive period the parent shall take or cause the child to be taken to the Public Vaccinator or Medical Practitioner, who shall then examine the child and give the requirevl certificate, so long as he deems requisite under the circumstances of the case. Not SuscejMhle of Succcmful Vaccination.—If any Public Vaccinator or any Medical Practitioner shall find that a child, whom he shall have three times un.suc- ccssfully 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 a certificate under his hand, and the parent shall thenceforth not be rcquireil to cause such child to be Vixccinatcd. Certifieate.\- of Piiceesnfiil Vaccination.—Within seven d.avs after the succc-ssful Vaccination of any chikl, the Public Vaccinator who sh.all have iHirforraojl the operation, or ascertained the s.aine to have been successfull v perfonned, .diall deliver to the i)arcnt of the .said child a certificate, under his hand, that the .said child h.^s been successfully vaccinated, and .shall also transmit .a duplicate of the .said certificate to the Registrar-General, in Adelaide. Puhlic iaccinator not to Charye Farnil.t.—'Hio fee or remuneration sh.all be charged by any Public V.accin.ator to the p.-muit for anv certificate or duplicate ceitilicafe given, nor for any Vaccination doin' under this .\ct.