Lee v. Marsh

Citations

• 230 Pa. 351
• 79 A. 564
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 615

Syllabus

<p>School children — Vaccination—Method to be used — Form of certificate ■ — Constitutional law — Act of June 18, 1895, P. L. 808.</p> <p>1. The moaning of the term “vaccination” as used in the Act of June 18, 1895, P. L. 203, which prohibits the attendance of a child at school without a certificate of successful vaccination, or of its having had the smallpox, is inoculation with the virus of cowpox for the purpose of communicating that disease as a prophylactic against smallpox, and the test of its success is the appearance of the symptoms of the disease including those which manifest themselves on the skin.</p> <p>2. Under the act of 1905 the state health department has power to regulate the form of certificate to be used, so as to prevent ambiguity and to require the certifying physician to use words in the same sense with which they are used in the act.</p>