ART. 43] VACCINATION OF PUPDLS. 1213
was punctured, or had sustained other injury, shall, upon con-
viction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not less than one hundred
. nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense.
1888, art. 43, sec. 30 1864, ch. 269, sec 6.
45. It shall be the duty of every parent and guardian to
have his or her child vaccinated within twelve months after its
birth, if it shall be in proper condition, or as soon thereafter
as practicable; and if such parent or guardian shall have any
other person under his or her control or care, not duly vacci-
nated, he or she shall cause such person to be vaccinated prior
to the first day of November of each year. Any person failing
to comply with the provisions of this section shall, on convic-
tion thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not less than five nor more
than ten dollars for each offense.
Ibid. sec. 31. 1864, ch. 269, sec. 7. 1900, ch. 337.
46. No teacher in any of the public schools of this State
shall receive into such school as a pupil any person who has
not been successfully vaccinated; and it shall be the duty of
all teachers in the public schools within ten days after the
beginning of the fall term of said schools, and thereafter as
new pupils shall enter such school, to ascertain and enroll on
the vaccine register of said school the names of those pupils
who may produce a certificate of a regular practising physi-
cian of the county or city, as the case may be, certifying that
the pupil has been successfully vaccinated, and also the names
of those pupils who have been enrolled at any previous term
in any school of the county or in the city of Baltimore, as the
case may be, as successfully vaccinated pupils, whenever any
such pupil shall present a certificate of such enrollment from
the teacher of any such school. If any person shall apply for
admission as a pupil in any of the public schools of this State
who has not been successfully vaccinated, the teacher shall
give the parents or guardian or other person having control
of such pupil an order directed to any physician in the county
or city, as the case may be, and requiring any regular physi-
cian to whom it may be presented to vaccinate such pupil and
return a certificate of such vaccination when successful to the
teacher giving such order. The county commissioners of the
several counties and the mayor and city council of Baltimore
city, as the case may be, shall pay or cause to be paid to the
physician performing the service on such order the sum of
fifty cents for every such successful vaccination on the presen-
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