RELATING TO VACCINATION: The Vaccination Acts, and the Instructional Circulars, Regulations issued by Authority ECA BY DANBY P. FRY, ESQ., OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AND INSPECTOR UNDER THE LOCAL KNIGHT & CO., 90, FLEET STREET, PREFACE. The present volume, arising out of the Act of 1871, contains, it is believed, all the Instructions, Orders, and Regulations which have been issued up to this time by authority, with reference to Public Vaccination, as well as all the Statutes and Decisions of the Courts bearing directly on the subject. Since the following sheets were printed off, a case has occurred in the Court of Queen's Bench, under sec. 31 of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 84, a report of which (taken from "Knight's Official Advertiser," of 4th May, 1872) is inserted below: Court of Queen's Bench, April 25, 1872. "Mr. Baker moved to quash a conviction under the Vaccination "Acts, in a case in which a person who had an objection to vac"cination was fined for his failure to comply with an order directing "him to have his child vaccinated, and subsequently, the child continuing unvaccinated, waz again summoned, convicted, and fined. It was argued that the offence was one and the same, "and that the second conviction was therefore bad. 66 66 "The Lord Chief Justice said that the continued disobedience "to the order was the subject of fresh offences whilst it continued ; "and Mr. Justice Blackburn remarked that it might as well be con"tended that because a man had been fined yesterday for beating "his wife, he could not be fined for beating her to-day. "The application was accordingly refused." Whitehall, May, 1872. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Vaccination Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 84, with Notes The Vaccination Act, 1871, 34 & 35 Vict. c. 98, with Notes ... PAGE. INTRODUCTION. THE first Vaccination Act, passed in 1840 (3 and 4 Vict., c. 29), and amended in 1841 by 4 and 5 Vict., c. 32, while it provided the means of vaccination, at the public cost, for every person in England and Wales, left it entirely at the option of every person whether he would resort to the public vaccinator for this purpose or not; it being expressly provided, however, that, if he did so, he should not be thereby pauperized. The arrangements made in pursuance of those Acts, by the Guardians and Overseers of the Poor throughout the country, under the supervision of the Poor Law Commissioners, and afterwards of the Poor Law Board, are believed to have been fully sufficient for the object which they had in view; but, although ample opportunity for gratuitous vaccination was thus afforded, and although the public availed themselves of it to a large extent, the Legislature nevertheless considered it desirable, in 1853, to make further provision on the subject. The Vaccination Extension Act of that year (16 and 17 Vict., c. 100), founded on a Bill which was introduced by Lord Lyttelton into the House of Lords, adopted the new and important principle (new, at least, in this country) of rendering the practice of B |