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Fifth Day:-
Third Day:-
Morning. Water Supplies, Practical Demonstration. Wells, springs, rivers, marshes, washing places, small pools, and malaria. Visits to places with good and bad specimens. Afternoon.-Water Supplies, Lectures. Results of morning's observations.
Sixth Day :-
Oral examination on the week's lessons.
First Day:
Second Week.
Morning-Lecture. Small-pox, measles, chicken-pox, mumps, sore eyes. Afternoon.-Lecture. Consumption, plague, hydrophobia, tetanus, snake
Fourth Day:
bites, worms.
Morning. Lecture. Sores, itch, ringworm, parangi.
Afternoon.-Lecture. Climate and Diseases. Climate of Ceylon. Monsoons, hills, plains, winds, water in air, rain, rain-gauge, heat and how
Fifth Day :-
to measure.
Morning.-Lecture with Demonstrations. Eyesight, anatomy and physiology of the eye. Long and short sight. Irregular sight. Arrange- ment of seats in schools with regard to eyesight. Arrange- ment of light.
Afternoon.-Lecture. Sanitary regulations and vaccination.
Sixth Day:-
Written Examination.
Morning. Air, Practical Demonstration. Preparation of oxygen. Reactions of oxygen. Nitrogen and its inert properties. Lime water and how to make it. CO, and its test. Marsh gas from marsh water. Rotten-egg gas from swamps. Ammonia from urine. Microscopical demonstration on germs. Afternoon.-Air, Lecture. What is air? Need of air. Oxygen, nitrogen, and respiration. Impurities in air. Living near marshes. Decomposing animal and vegetable substances. Diseases spread by air.
Second Day :-
Morning.-Ventilation, Practical Demonstration. Good air. Bad air. Pol- lution of air. Change of air. Candle burning under tumbler and in draught of air. Houses and ventilation. Persons in a
room.
Afternoon.-Ventilation, Lecture. Summary of what has been learnt from
practical demonstrations.
Third Day:-
Morning-Dwellings, Practical Demonstration. Inspection of dwellings,
good and bad. Afternoon.-Dwellings, Lecture. Good houses and bad. Where to build a house. How to build a house. Whitewash. Cleaning round houses. Number of inhabitants. Light. Ventilation.
Fourth Day :-
Morning. Afternoon.
Fifth Day:
Sewage, Practical Demonstration. Visits to latrines and cesspits. Sewage, Lecture. Necessity of latrines; where and how to build them. Use of dry earth or coir. Relation to wells and springs. Disposal of sewage without latrines. Disposal of dust, garden, and field refuse, and dirt from animals.
Morning. Exercise, Lecture. Reason and advantages of exercise and lack of exercise. Exercise for men, boys, and girls. School exercise. Manual work. Carrying loads. Young children and work. Children not to be kept standing for long periods. Afternoon.-Washing and Clothes. Reasons for washing and benefit of it.
Clothes. Clean clothes. Damp clothes. Chills. Belts.
Sixth Day :-
Oral Examination.
First Day :-
Morning-Causation of Diseases, Lecture.
Afternoon.-Malaria, Lecture.
Second Day :-
Morning-Malaria, Practical Demonstration.
Afternoon.-Lecture. Dysentery, diarrhoea, enteric, and cholera.
APPENDIX II.
Colonial Secretariat, Lagos, 17th July, 1901.
His Excellency the Governor has directed that the following notification be published for general information.
By Command,
C. H. HARLEY MOSELEY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
In connection with the course of Lectures and Demonstrations on Sanitation now being carried on by Dr. Strachan, Chief Medical Officer of the Colony, it is intended to institute Examinations on the subjects embraced in the lectures.
These examinations though instituted primarily for Sanitary Inspectors, Nurses, Dispensers, and Teachers in the Schools subsidised by the Government, will be to any person who chooses to present himself to the examiners.
open
It is proposed to issue Certificates in Sanitation to those who successfully pass the examinations. The Certificates will be of two grades, First Class and Second Class.
To obtain a First Class Certificate not less than seventy-five per cent. of the total of the marks obtainable must be made by the Candidate. For a Second Class Certifi- cate, not less than fifty per cent.
Sanitary Inspectors, Nurses, Government Dispensers, and School Teachers, must obtain the First Class Certificate.
For the guidance of intending Candidates for Certificates, the syllabus below will serve as a guide, and will indicate generally the subjects to which attention should be specially directed in preparing for the examination.
A high proportion of marks will be attached to the questions connected with fever, dysentery, and water.
ELEMENTARY HYGIENE.
SYLLABUS FOR GUIDANCE OF Students and EXAMINERS.
(A.) 1. Hygiene.-(That is, study of the Laws of Health or "Sanitation.") What it is.
Object and benefit of the study of Elementary Hygiene; -special value in West Africa owing to existing disregard of health questions.
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