The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-26
HEAL I'll LAW WILL
NOW Be ENFORCED
Twelve Physicians Are En-
played as the Vaccinators
ARE TO COVER THE CITY
All Persons Who Have Not Been Sue
cessfuIIy InnocuIated Must Com
ply With Law-Mayor and
City Physician Confer.
ARE TO COVER THE CITY

Twelve physicians appointed by Dr.
Charles Whelan, city physician, under
the direction of the mayor, yesterday
started to work vaccinating all persons
who cannot show signs of successful vac
eination during the past seven years.
The following were appointed by DR..
Whelan as vaccinators: DR.. M. A. Cope
land, DIR. Callen, DR.. Lowery, DR.. Long,
DR.. Cooper, DIR. Shropshire, DIR. Cooke.
DR.. Toole, DR.. Lawson. DIR. Purifoy, DIR.
Anderson and DR.. Mason. Under the
state law no one can serve as vaccina-
tor unless he is graduate of a medical
college.
DIR. Whelan estimates that it will re-
quire about thirty days time for the vac
cinators to thoroughly cover the CITY,
Four of the doctors are at work on the
south side. and the others on the north
side.
Yesterday afternoon a short conference
was held between DIR. Whelan and Mayor
Drennen relative to the smallpox situa-
ton.
The State Law.
Under the state law vaccination is now
! compulsory. The following sections of an
act to provide for the quarantine and
protection of public health in Jefferson
county, adopted by the last legislature,
relates to compulsory vaccinations;
Section l. The municipal authorities
of any municipality shall have the power
to incur such expenses and employ such
guards and other persons as may be nee
essary or deemed necessary to establish
and maintain any private quarantine or
public quarantine ordered by the munich
pal authorities, and may employ as many
guards and persons as are necessary or
deemed necessary to remove persons
either peaceably or forcibly, to the hos
pitfalls or such place of detention estab-
lished by it. and to keep such persons,
peaceably or forcibly, at such hospital or
place of detention and to prevent
breach of any quarantine ordered by the
municipal authorities and to establish
such regulations as may be necessary or
deemed necessary to enforce any quar-
antine or order of the municipal author
tiles.
Section u. 1t shall be the duty of the
board of health in each county where
such board deems it necessary for the
protection of the public health that any
person or persons should be vaccinated to
prevent the spread of a contagious or
infectious disease, to direct the health
officer and as many other persons and as
sistants as it may be deemed necessary
to vacoinate such person or persons
May Vaccinate by Force.
Section IS. The health officer and such
person or persons as are appointed vac
cinators by the board of health to do
such vaccination, may forcibly vaccinate
such persons directed to be vaccinated by
the board of health as refuse to be vac
cinated, using such force as may be ne
cessary to accomplish vaccination. Tho
board of health through its chairman
or other head, shall give to each vacci-
nator appointed a certificate showing
that the vaecirator has been appointed
by the board of health, and such vacci-
nator shall exhibit such certificate when
ever required to any person who de-
mands his authority to vaccinate
''Section a. The board of health may
designate the person or persons to be
vaccinated (not by name) by deslgnat-
ing class such as all persons who
have been exposed or are suspected to
have been exposed to a contagious or
infectious disease, all persons in locality
or district. all persons who have not been
successfully vaccinated, all persons in
a certain stage of life, or by any other
class designation; and In any designation
the said board may except from any class
such person as 1t deems fit on account OF
age or health or for other reasons"