, 1875-11-24

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into the Island of a case of small pox, which
caused the disease to spread further, entailing
great pecuniary OUTLAWS and exposing the whole
community to a danger that might ultimately
have become far more serious than was realized.
The Draft has, however, nothing more for its
object, than to extend to the colonies the same
rules on this matter as those in force in Den
mark, with some minor changes in the details
owing to peculiar relations here, and with refer
ence to which honorable Members could make
their observations or amendments, although
this would not be very desirable in this case,
unless there was urgent cause for it, the Draft
being one in common for both Islands, and,
hence, it being desirable to avoid differences of
results between the 9 Councils. He called
attention to some mistakes in the English
translation Of the Draft, viz. in 81 when it is
stated that all unconfrmed children shall
Z" accordingly " be vaccinated within etc.
it should be /" shall moreover be vaccjnated etc
then again no separation is made between s
and s 5, whereas the Alb should commence
with the words The Policemaster etc. :"
Amendments to rectify this would in due time
come forward.
3rd Member for Christiansted (Hanson);
No distinction is made for 5 7 either.
The President promised to attend to that
point too.
LIST Member for Frederiksted (Sarauv):
The intention of the present Draft is TO extend
the Law for the Mother Country to the colonies.
The general rule should be when extending such
laws TO make no changes except such as are
necessary, and when changes are made, expla-
nation should be given of the reasons, except, Of
course. in such cases where there are merely
formal changes and may be easily perceived.
But here are in this Draft some changes, the eau
es of which are not explained. In | the age
for vaccinating is here fixed for 6 years, while
in the Law for the Mother Country the
age is I; what is the reason of this
change I'm 4 a clause is omitted,
which in his opinion would lead to the
whole not being acted upon, namely the
clause in the Law providing that whenever
in times of smallpox epidemics, the Superior
Authority should order general vaccination
within a fixed term, the public physician is to
appear or be present on the spot before the
term expires this clause should not be omit
ted if we want 70 avoid injustice, and if tho
P~olicema>ters in such cases are not to be ex-
posedIo be at a loss what to do.-Iu 5 s an
addition is ma lie Of a clause that is not in the
Law, and for which no good reason has been
assigned, VIZ: the enactment that for perform
ing revaccinations, the physician is entitled
to receive a pay of - cts. for each person
vaccinpted, which payment in the case Of those
who prove their pecuniary inability by certih'
cato from the poiicemaster shall be betrayed
by the Colonial treasury. Although the fee is
small, still it would give rise to trouble and
Inconvenience and, moreover, there could be
no reason why revaccination should not be per-
formed by the physician gratultously, the same
as vaccination $50, any how, this clause
should be struck out.-When proposing a penal
ty for the School Board in the event of trans
erosion of the duties in 3, the Draft is in
keeping with the Law but We are expecting,
or at least have hopes of getting a new School
Ordinance, while already now IN the Country.
School Ordinance the Commissions consist OF
Extraordinary Members, such as the Ministers
of the several foreign denominations; it would
certainly be hard to expose such Members to
fines. 1t should only be the Chairman, and
those who are Members er 0ttc1O, on whom
the responsibility should rest.-Finally, he
would draw attention to the system followed
of late years, when in extending laws of Den
mark, fines stipulated in Danish Currency are
transferred to colonial currency, so that instead
of Rixdpllars IS placed Westindia Dollars.
Thereby the fines become very heavy. Former
ly every Rixdollar was put down in such cases
at "a cents, and in the Pension Law | dollar
is conSidered equtl to 8 Marks.
The Chairman called the honora BILE Mem
ber's attention to the fact. that the stipulation
in 5 8 about the fee for revaccination was taken
almo't verbatim from the Law, where the fees
are fixed at "a SIX. and l2 SIX.
ITO be continued