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DIPLOMAS IN PUBLIC HEALTH.

Part I. comprises-Physics and Chemistry. The principles of Chemistry, and methods of analysis with especial reference to analyses of water and air. Application of the microscope. The laws of heat, and the principles of pneumaties, hydrostatics and hydraulica, with especial reference to ventila- tion, water-supply, drainage, construction of dwellings, disposal of sewage and refuse, and sanitary engineering in general.

Part 11. comprises-Laws of the realm relating to public health. Sani- tary statistics. Origin, propagation, pathology, and prevention of epidemic and infectious discases. Effects of over-crowding, vitiated air, impure water, and bad or insufficient food. Unhealthy occupations and the diseases to which

Nuisancive rise. Water supply and drainage in reference to health.

injurious to health. Distribution of diseases within the United Kingdom, the effects of soil, season, and climate,

The Examination in each part occupies two days, and is oral and prac- tical as well as in

1 as in writing.

Candidates may present themselves for either part separately or for both together at their roption; but the result of the examination in the case of any Candidate will not be published until he has passed in both parts.

to didate is required to pay a fee of four guineas before admission

of the Examination.

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candidate who has passed both parts of the Examination to the satisfaction of the

the Examiners receives a diploma testifying to bis com- petent knowledge of what is required for the duties of a Medical Officer of Health. The holders of these diplomas are designated briefly by the letters D. P. H. Camb.'

All applications for admission to this Examination, or for information respecting it, should be addressed to Professor Liveing, Cambridge.

The following suggestions have been drawn up by the Syndicats for super- intending

the Examination in State Medicine as some guide to Candidates preparing for that Examination.

I. The principles of Chemistry are sufficiently set forth in any of the

manuals. Candidates will be expected to understand the ap- plicatiary

of the general laws to such cases as occur in the practice of as officer of health, but will not be expected to shew an acquaintance with those details of Chemistry which have no direct bearing on sanitary questione.

No importance will be attached to the use of any particular chemical nota-

It is not expected that officers of

of health will in general be able to art

tion.

of the competent

as public analysts, but that they will know the methods of analysis and enough of the practice to obtain approximate results and to interpret

the several sciences of which the Candidates are expected to shew a

the results of professional analysts. The kinds of applicatious knowledge will be best understood by a Practical Hygiene. In the actual analysis of water and air Candidates will a perusal of Parkes's Manual of not the expected to make complete quantitative analyses, but to know how to apply ordinary chemical methods for the detection and discrimination of mineral and allow, to time states in the samples, and, as far as the time will

to estimate their quantity. PART II. Candidates will be expected to shew an acquaintance with the sanitary laws in tes

in force in England; but if any Candidate has informa. tion respecting alternative laws in force in the Metropolis ur in Scotland or in ireland,

opportunity

will be given him, alternatively, of shewing his acquaintance with such laws.

Sanitary Statistics" are to be regarded as including the leading Sta tistical facts in respect to population, births and deaths in the United King- dom; the method of registering Births and Deaths; the rande of determining Birth-ratce and Death rates, and the conditions or circumstances or preva lent diseases by which these Rates are chiefly influenced.

PROCEEDINGS IN SCIENCE AND LETTERS.

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The rest of Part II, besides the subjects expressly mentioned, is to be naderstood as including those of Vaccination, Disinfectants, the management of outbreaks of lnfectious Diseases, with the construction of Hospitals tem- porary or permanent; Endemic Diseases; the qualities and suitableness of various Waters used for domestic purposes; the inspection of factories, mines, workshops and contnon lodging-houses.

PROCEEDINGS IN SCIENCE AND IN LETTERS.

Students in Science who, baving already taken a Degree in Arts, Law, Mediciner Surgery, have given proofs of distinction in Science by some original contribution to the advancement of Science, and hage done all that is required the Statutes and Ordinances of the University, may be ad- mitted to the title of Doctor Designate in Science, and shall afterwards be created Doctors at the time prescribed by the University. Stat. A. e. ii.

12. Students in Letters who having already raken a Degree in Asta, Las, Medicine, or Surgery have given proofs of distinction by some original contribution to the advancement of Learning, and have done all that is required by the Statutes and Ordinances of the University, may be admitted to the title of Doctor Designate in Letters, and shal afterwards be created Doctors at the time prescribed by the University Stai. A. c. ii. § 13.

The day for creation is in each case the Tuesday immediately preceding the last day of Easter Term,

The names of the Doctors Designate in Science and of the Doctors Designate in Letters having been recited in the order of their Seniority with the addition of Doctor Designatus in Scientia or Doctor Dexignatus in Litteris to each, as the case may be, the Senior of all the Doctors of Science and of Letters, who are in residence, or some other Doctor either of Science or of Letters deputed by, makes the following declara-

tion:

Auctoritate mihi commissa crefet pronuntio hos omnes Doctores vel in Scientia vel in Litteris, pront quique modu dosignatus est."

REGULATIONS FOR THE DEGREES OF DOCTOR IN SCIENCE AND DOGTOR IN LETTERS,

1. Any person may be a Candidate for the degree of Doctor in Science or Doctor in Letters who is blaster of Arts, Law or Surgery, of not less than fre years' standing, a Bachelor of Medicine of not less than seven years' standing.

2. Such Candidate shall make his application in writing to the Chair. man of the Special Board of Studies with which he considers that the subject of kis original contribution to the advanceinent of Science or Learning is most negly connected and shall specify therein the printed contribution or confibutions to the advancement of Science or Learning upon which his claim for a degree is based.

3. Such application shall be referred to a Committee of the Special Board of Studies, which shall constar of the Chairman of the Board, of the Professors and Readers who are members of such Board either by Statute or

Case of the Classical as Professors (including the Public Orator in the

Board) or Readers, and the Members of the Senate

elected to serve on the Board for a term of years.

4. If such Committee shall be of opinion that the original contribe. tions to the advancement of Science or Learning constitute primâ facie a

qualibation for a degree, they shall obtain reports upon them from not less than two persons, who may be members of the Committee or not. These reports shall be treated as confidential documents.

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