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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previously provided for in the various enactments, dating from 1840, on the subject prior to 1867, all of which were repealed by the Vaccination Act of that year (30 & 31 Vict.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...
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...
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....
Bacterin
A bacterial vaccine...
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...
immunized
rendered less susceptible to disease by treatment with a vaccine...
Pock
A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases...
Pox
Strictly a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases the smallpox the chicken pox and the vaccine and the venereal diseases...
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