May 30, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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matic courses of instruction in commerce 

 have been instituted, leading to graduation. 

 The number of graduates and students who 

 served with the forces during the war was 

 about 800. Of these 96 have been killed or 

 reported missing. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AND 

 PUBLIC HEALTH IN YALE UNIVERSITY 



Ax outline of the work planned by the de- 

 partment of bacteriology and public health of 

 Yale University, is given by Professor C.-E. A. 

 Winslow in a recent number of the Yale 

 Alumni Weehly. After consult-ation with the 

 leading eastern universities a comprehensive 

 program has been prepared leading to the 

 Certificate in Public Health and the Doctorate 

 in Public Health as well as to the Doctorate in 

 Philosophy. 



The Certificate in Public Health, which is to 

 be conferred for one year of post-graduate 

 study, is designed for two classes of students. 

 On the one hand, young men and women who 

 are just graduating from a college or technical 

 school and desire to enter the field of public 

 health, will be given a broad training in bac- 

 teriology, sanitation, health organization and 

 vital statistics which will fit them for positions 

 in health department laboratories and statis- 

 tical bureaus, in bureaus of child hygiene or in 

 other state and municipal departments. Out- 

 side of this district field of public service, ex- 

 perience has shown that those who hold the 

 C-ertificate in Public Health may frequently 

 find attractive positions as health executives, 

 or as secretaries and field agents of various 

 private organizations such as anti-tuberculosis 

 societies, housing associations and the like. 



A second class of students of maturer years 

 for whom provision must be made, includes 

 persons who have already specialized in some 

 field related to public health, in medicine, for 

 example, or sociology, or psychology or sanitary 

 engineering, and desire to apply their special 

 knowledge in the campaign for public health. 

 The course for the Certificate in Public Health, 

 with the freedom of election permitted to such 

 mature students, is well adapted to give them a 

 grasp of the general tendencies of the public 

 health campaign and the special training they 



need in order to apply their knowledge in this 

 field. 



For students who desire to specialize in 

 greater detail in certain of the various lines 

 discussed above, opportunities will be offered to 

 pursue a course of study of three years leading 

 to the d^ree of Doctor of Philosophy, with op- 

 portunities for major specialization in prob- 

 lems of sanitation, epidemiology and industrial 

 hygiene (with Professor Winslow) ; in public 

 health bacteriology (with Professor Eettger) ; 

 in the hygiene of the respiratory and central 

 nervous system (with Professor Henderson); 

 in immimology (with Professor Smith) ; in nu- 

 trition (with Professor Mendel) ; in problems 

 of sanitary engineering (with Professor Bar- 

 ney) ; in problems relating to school and child 

 hygiene (with Professor Gessel) ; and in vital 

 statistics (with Dr. Dublin). 



Both the Certificate in Public Health and 

 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy are open to 

 any college graduates, either men or women, 

 provided they have pursued 4uring their col- 

 lege course certain necessary prerequisites. 



Beginning next autumn a new course of two 

 years will be offered to medical graduates for 

 which the degree of Doctor of Public Health 

 will be conferred. It is believed that such a 

 course, embodying not only class work but 

 practical field work in a municipal health de- 

 partment, and the completion of study of a 

 special problem designed to test and to develop 

 the power of individual initiative, should fur- 

 nish an ideal education for the public health 

 administrator of the future. 



BASE HOSPITAL NO. 21 OF THE WASHINGTON 

 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 



On April 20, 1919, Base Hospital No. 21, 

 formed from the faculty of the Washington 

 University school of medicine, St. Louis, 

 landed in New York after 23 months service 

 with the American Expeditionary Forces in 

 France. The \mit, in command of Major 

 Fred T. Murphy, was in the first one thousand 

 troops to go overseas; it was attached during 

 the greater part of its service to the British 

 forces and stationed at Rouen. Lieutenant 

 Colonel Walter Fischel was in charge of the 

 medical service. A part of the hospital, oper- 



