In a letter acknowledging the resignation of Mrs. N. Leslie from the Education Board, the Secretary to the Council says! "The Council cir. jeveatly regrets that your departure [from Shanghai necessitates your resignation, and I have to express to you its keen appreciation of the lgveat personal interest which you Ihave taken in educational activi a report submitted to the Health Committee, the Commission~ lex of Public Health stated that he had received a request from a well known Tocal firm that individual certificates be supplied to ployees of the firm to the effect that vaccination against smallpox had been performed by a member of the Department. Hitherto such certificates had been issued free of charge on request to those voce inated at Branch Health Offices or elsewhere, and it had been realized that this concession should be applicable to individuals who were unable to pay doctor's fees, In order to safeguard medical practitioners, who righty regard vaccination and the issuing of the corresponding certificates to be within the scope of their practice, hho considered that a small charge {for a vaccination certificate might be a useful protection for all concerned. He, therefore, requested a ruling as to this.
After brief discussion, members concurred as to the propriety of a small charge being imposed for the issue of these certificates. Accordingly it was recommended that a feo lof $2 be charged by the Council for the issue of individual vaccination certificates: in indigent cases this feo to be waived at the discretion }of the Commissioner of Public Health, The Council has approved this recommendation,
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