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Vaccination, inoculation with the virus of cowpox as a preventive of smallpox. First made compulsory in 1853 by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, gratuitous vaccination having been previously provided for in the various enactments, dating from 1840, on the subject prior to 1867, all of which were repealed by the Vaccination Act of that year (30 & 31 Vict. c. 84). By the Act it was provided, inter alia, that the parent of every child born in England should within three months after the birth of such child, or where by reason of the death, illness, absence, or inability of the parent or other cause, any other person should have the custody of such child, 1898 by the (English) Vaccination Act, 1898, and this last Act was itself amended by the (English) Vaccination Act, 1907, in order to give relief to persons having a conscientious objection to vaccination, and s. 1(1) is as follows:-1.-(1) No parent or other person shall be liable to any penalty under s. 29 or s. 31 of the Vaccination Act of 1867 if...
Vaccination-circle
Vaccination-circle, means one of the parts into which a municipality or cantonment has been divided under the Vaccination Act for the per-formance of vaccination. [Vaccination Act, 1880 (XIII of 1888), s. 2(6)]...
Children
Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 107, as meaning, for the purposes of the Act, a person under fourteen years of age. The (English) Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 47), makes provisions for Scotland similar to those of the corresponding English Act.Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born alive, and in their default of other persons (see BIRTHS), to give information to the registrar within forty two days; the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 2 and 3, provides for compulsory notification of births to the Medical Officer of Health (see BIRTHS), and the child must be vaccinat...
Parent
Parent includes, for the purpose of the (English) Education Act, 1921 [s. 170 (12)], 'guardian and every person who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody of the child or young person'; and for the purpose of vaccination, the father and mother of a legitimate child, the mother of an illegitimate child, and any person having its custody, Vaccination Act of 1867, s. 35, and of 1871, s. 4....
Influenza
An epidemic viral infectious disease characterized by acute nasal catarrh or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi and usually accompanied by fever and general weakness also called grippe It is caused by several forms of RNA virus which mutate readily and thereby render vaccines prepared against older forms ineffective often requiring a new form of vaccine for each new outbreak...
Cowpox
A pustular eruptive disease of the cow which when communicated to the human system as by vaccination protects from the smallpox vaccinia called also kinepox cowpock and kinepock...
Health
Health, The state of being sound or whole in body, mind, or soul; freedom from pain or sickness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Health, See QUARANTINE; ADULTERATION; VACCINATION; and PUBLIC HEALTH.The term health implies more than an absence of sickness. Medical care and health facilities not only protect against sickness but also ensures stable manpower for economic development. Facilities of health and medical care generate devotion and dedication to give the workers' best, physically as well as mentally, in productivity. It enables the worker to enjoy the fruit of his labour, to keep him physically fit and mentally alert for leading a successful, economic, social and cultural life. The medical facilities are, therefore, part of social security and like gilt-edged security, it would yield immediate return in the increased production or at any rate reduce absenteeism on grounds of sickness, etc. Health is thus a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely ...
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health)
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health). This Board was established by the (English) Local Government Board Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 70), which concentrated in one department of the Government 'the supervision of the laws relating to the public health, the relief of the poor, and local government,' and transferred thereto all the powers of the Poor Law Board, all the powers of a Secretary of State as to registration of births, deaths, and marriages, public health, drainage, local government, etc. (as mentioned in scheduled Acts), and all powers of the Privy Council as to prevention of disease, and vaccination (as mentioned in scheduled Acts). The (English) Ministry of Health Act, 1919, s.11, transferred all the powers and duties of the Local Government Board to the Ministry of Health. All references in statutes to the Local Government Board must be read as referring to the Ministry of Health (S. 11, Sched. I.)....
Poor laws
Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...
Small pox
Small pox. See VACCINATION....
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