APPENDIX. 



REGULATIONS FOR THE DIPLOMA IN 

 PUBLIC HEALTH. 



I. The Council, having regard to the terms of Section 18 

 of the Local Government Act (1888) and of Section 54 of the 

 Local Government (Scotland) Act (1889), and observing that 

 under those sections special privilege is to be accorded to the 

 holders of the diplomas granted under Section 21 of the 

 Medical Act (1886), and therein described as Diplomas in 

 Sanitary Science, Public Health, or State Medicine, thinks it 

 essential to declare, with regard to its own future action 

 under Section 21 of the Medical Act (1886), that it will not 

 consider diplomas to " deserve recognition in the Medical 

 Register " unless they have been granted under such conditions 

 of education and examination as to ensure (in the judgment of 

 the Council) the possession of a distinctively high proficiency, 

 scientific and practical, in all the branches of study which 

 concern the public health ; and the Council, in forming its 

 judgment on such conditions of education and examination, 

 will expect the following rules to have been observed : 



Rule i. The curriculum for a Diploma in Sanitary Science, 

 Public Health, or State Medicine shall extend over a period 

 of not less than nine calendar months. 



Rule 2. Every candidate for a Diploma in Sanitary Science, 

 Public Health, or State Medicine shall have produced satis- 

 factory evidence that, after obtaining a registrable qualification, 

 which should be registered before admission to examination 

 for the diploma, he has received practical instruction in a 

 laboratory or laboratories, British or foreign, approved by 

 the licensing body granting the diploma in which Chemistry, 

 Bacteriology, and the Pathology of the Diseases of Animals 

 transmissible to Man are taught. 



Note. The laboratory instruction shall cover a period of 

 not less than four calendar months, and the candidate shall 

 produce evidence that he has worked in the laboratory for 

 at least 240 hours, of which not more than one-half shall be 



