The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-07-05
The Lexington Dispatch.
"Wednesday, July 5, 1905.

Wednesday, July 5, 1905.
Compulsory Vaccination.
Rules of the Board of Health in Re-.
gard to Enforcing Vaccination Ac-
cording to an Act of the General
Assembly, Approved February, e.,
1905, No. 434.
The Journal of the South Carolina
Medical Association.
Take Notice: That the following
rules which by reference to the Act
referred to and hereinafter printed it
will be observed, have the force and
effect of law.
At meeting of tie State Board Of
Health on the 12;h day of May, 1905,
by virtue of An Act of the General
Assembly, approved February 22od,
1905, No. 434, in reference to the en-
forcement of vaccination, the follow
ing rules and regulations are here
with adopted and promulgated in
reference to matters OF vaccination
and revaccination of all persons with
in the State who do not reside with
in the limits or Jurisdiction of any
incorporated city or town.
Rule l. That all persons within
the State of South Carolina who do
not reside within the limits or juris-
diction of an incorporated city or
town shall be vaccinated, and revac-
cinated by the duly appointed agents
of the said State Board of Health,
except persons who may obtain a
certificate Of reputable physician
that vaccination would be dangerous
to health, at the following periods:
During the first, sixth and fifteenth
years of the age of the persone; and
that all persons who have never been
vaccinated, or shall be exposed, or
are likely to become exposed to small
pox. shall be vaccinsted forthwith:
Provided, That the charge for each
vaccination shall be ten cents except
the INDECENT persons, to whom the
charge shall be nothing.
Rule II. No superintendent OF
a , institution of learning and no
school board or principal of any
school in the State, not located with
in city or town shall admit as a
pupil any child or persons who con-
not produce satisfactory evidence OF
having been vsccinated as often as
required in Rule ! above, and it is
hereby made the duty of every parent,
guardian or other persons charged
with the care or responsibility for
any child to see that such child, it
not a resident of city or town, is
vaccinated as often as required by
Role l.
Section 6 of the Act above referred
to provided: "Any officer or person
who shall fail, neglect or refuse to
comply with any provision of this
Act applicable to such officer or per-
son shall be guilty of misdemesnor,
and upon conviction thereof in a
court Of competent jurisdiction ehsll
be fined in the sum OF one hundred
dollars, or to be imprisoned for thirty
days."
The following form for ordinances
is submitted for the consideration OF
the various Municipalities to carry
out the law therein referred to which
is hereinafter printed. This is merely
suggestion as to the form and con-
tents. and any other conforming to
the Act will be satisfactory, observ-
ing, of course the charter ruels gov
erning the manner, time, formalities,
etc, creating an ordinance or NUM-
cipal law, and the periods of time for
vaccination, which under Section OF
the Act must be satisfactory to the
State Board as set forth in the ordi-
nsnces submitted: