36 SCIENCE 
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 
INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH IN INDUSTRIAL 
HYGIENE AT THE HARVARD MEDICAL 
SCHOOL 
Tue Harvard Medical School is prepared to 
offer courses of instruction in industrial hy- 
giene and facilities to investigate the prob- 
lems of industry. This is made possible 
through the foresight and generosity of a 
group of New England manufacturers, who 
appreciate the importance of studying the dis- 
eases of occupation and improving the condi- 
tions of labor. 
Boston and its immediate vicinity offers ex- 
ceptional opportunities for work of this kind. 
Within a short distance are found a great 
variety of industries, and the school has the 
assurances of sympathetic cooperation through 
an advisory board of business men consisting 
of: 
W. E. McKay, Massachusetts Gas Company and 
New England Manufacturing Company. 
S. Harold Greene, Lockwood, Greene and Com- 
pany. 
Frank J. Hale, Saco-Lowell Shops. 
The president of Harvard University has 
appointed a committee on industrial hygiene 
which is organized as follows: 
Dr. David L. Edsall, professor of clinical medicine. 
Dr. Reid Hunt, professor of pharmacology. 
, professor of chemistry. 
Dr. M. J. Rosenau (chairman), professor of pre- 
ventive medicine and hygiene. 
Dr. C. K. Drinker (secretary), assistant professor 
of physiology 
Under present conditions instruction and re- 
search in industrial hygiene will center about 
three subjects, chemistry, physiology and med- 
icine, and in these subjects new departments 
will be created. In addition to the new 
facilities so offered, courses will be developed 
in the pharmacological, sanitary and social 
phases of industry, supplementing the work of 
the school of public health. Fellowships and 
scholarships are available for those properly 
qualified. 
‘Opportunities will be open to three separate 
groups: 
1. Research workers. 
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2. Medical officers for large industries. 
3. Inspectors of industries. 
1. Research Workers—Those who are prop- 
erly qualified to carry on original investiga- 
tions may begin at any time, and the facilities 
and the laboratories at the Harvard Medical 
School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, 
and the practical conditions in many large in- 
dustries will be available for this purpose. 
The qualifications of the worker, the problem, 
and conditions. of each research must be ap- 
proved by the head of the department in 
which the work will mainly be done, and also 
have the sanction of the committee. Those 
who are properly qualified may matriculate 
for the degree of doctor of public health 
(Dr. P.H.). 
2. Physicians who desire to prepare them- 
selves to supervise the health of large bodies 
of work people may familiarize themselves 
with the diseases of occupation in the indus- 
trial clinie directed by Professor Edsall in the 
Massachusetts General Hospital. Courses will 
be offered in the physiology of the worker by 
Professor Drinker, in industrial toxicology 
and biochemistry by Professor Hale, and in 
the sanitation and hygiene of the worker by 
Professor Rosenau. 
In addition, there will be lectures and prac- 
tical exercises to be given by specialists in 
different branches of public health. 
3. Through cooperation with the school of 
public health of Harvard University and the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, op- 
portunity is afforded to those who desire to 
prepare themselves for the position of in- 
spector of industrial establishments. The re- 
quirements of admission to the school of 
public health and the courses given will be 
found in the catalog, which may be had upon 
application. Those who comply with the re- 
quirements will be granted a certificate in 
public health (C.P.H.). 
Women are admitted as candidates for this 
certificate and to all the opportunities outlined 
in this announcement with the exception that 
they will not be permitted to matriculate for 
the degree of doctor of public health (Dr. P.H.). 
Research workers in Group 1 may take 
