COURSES FOR DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC HEALTH. CHEMISTRY. A Laboratory Course of two hours per week in the Martinmas Term, and four hours per week in the Candlemas Term, qualifying for the First D.P.H. Examination, is given in the Chemistry Laboratory at Dundee. The fee for this Course is seven guineas. BACTERIOLOGY. The class will meet in the Department of Pathology each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 2-4 P.M. during the Martinmas term, and on each Monday at the same hour during the Candlemas term. PUBLIC HEALTH. Candidates for the Diploma in Public Health can obtain theoretical and practical instruction. Application should be made to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. SYNOPSIS OF THE SUBJECTS OF 1. Analysis of Air. FIRST EXAMINATION. 2. Analysis of Water. 1. Chemistry. 3. Examination of Foods.-Milk, butter, margarine, flour, bread, starchy foods, and sugar. 4. Examination of Beverages.-Tea, coffee, cocoa, alcoholic beverages, and aerated waters. 5. Examination of Condiments.-Salt and vinegar. 6. Methods of preserving foods. Detection and estimation of Poisons in foods. 7. Examination of Sewage and Effluents after treatment. 8. Disinfectants and Deodorisers. Examination of the materials and determination of-their comparative power. Text-book-Chemistry for Public Health Students (E. Gabriel Jones). 2. Physics and Meteorology. Gases.-Pressure, volume, temperature, solubility in liquids, absorption by solids, diffusion, movements of air in relation to ventilation and instruments employed in relation thereto. Liquids.-Effects of variations of temperature, pressure, capillarity, osmosis, solution, vapour, movements of liquids. Heat.-Temperature, latent heat, specific heat, fusion, boiling, evaporation, radiation, conduction, convection. Electricity. Elementary facts regarding electrical currents; how developed by galvanic cells, or by induction, with their chief effects. The dangers of currents at a high voltage. Electrolysis. Dynamics.-Elements of dynamics of solids and fluids. Meteorology. Topographical, atmospheric, and climatic influences in their relations to health and disease. 3. Bacteriology. (a) General relation of bacteria, protozoa, and animal parasites to communicable disease of man and to diseases transmissible from animals to man. (b) The isolation and differentiation of organisms. (c) The examination of water, milk, sewage, products of pathological processes, and of material suspected of bearing infection, for disease-producing organisms. (d) Immunity, serum and vaccine therapy. LABORATORY EXAMINATION. (a) The isolation of organisms. (b) The differentiation of organisms by microscopical, cultural, serological, and other methods. (c) The recognition of lesions and their causal organisms in animal tissues and exudates by microscopical methods. (d) The recognition of gross lesions produced in human or animal tissues by bacteria or animal parasites. (e) The recognition of those animal parasites that are of import in human pathology. Text-book recommended for D.P.H. Course.-Practical Bacteriology, Microbiology, and Serum Therapy, by Albert Besson (translated by H. J. Hutchens, Heath Professor in the University of Durham). SECOND EXAMINATION. 4. Epidemiology and Endemiology. The origin, distribution, pathology, and prevention of epidemic and endemic diseases, and of the epizootics which affect man, and also of those incidental to particular occupations. The duties of a Medical Officer of Health with reference to these. 5. Practical Sanitation. (i) Climate and its influence on health. (iii) Site, environment, and construction of dwellings. (v) Water and water supplies. Eligibility of different sources of supply and works necessary for utilising these. Purification and distribution of water. The interpretation of water analyses. (vi) The disposal of refuse. Sewers, their construction and requirements. The principles of house drainage. Methods of sewage disposal. (vii) Food. Inspection of meat. relation to food-supply. (viii) Disinfection and disinfectants. (ix) Disposal of the dead. Diseases of animals in (x) Construction of dairies, bakehouses, and abattoirs. 6. Sanitary Law and Administration. (a) Sanitary Law. The Acts of Parliament embraced are- Act amending Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1879. Vaccination Acts, 1867-1907. Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 and 1894. Margarine Act, 1887. Alkali Acts, 1863-1874. Canal Boats Act, 1877 and 1884. Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878. Factories and Workshops Acts, 1878-1920. Public Health Interments Act, 1879. Rag Flock Act, 1911. Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1915. The various Regulations framed by the Board of Health under Section 78 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897. Scottish Board of Health Act, 1920. (b) Sanitary Administration— Duties of Medical Officers of Health and 7. Vital Statistics. Classifi Birth and death rates methods of calculation. cation of returns of sickness and mortality; data required, and conclusions deducible therefrom. The following list of books may be of use to candidates :— Physics.-Text-book of the Principles of Physics for Medical Students (Alfred Daniell, D.Sc.) Meteorology. Meteorology, Practical and Applied (John William Moore, M.D.) Laboratory Work. The Chemical Examination of Water, Sewage, and Foods (Purvis and Hodgson); Manual of Bacteriology (Muir and Ritchie). Manuals of Public Health.-Theory and Practice of Hygiene (Notter and Firth); Hygiene and Public Health (Parkes and Kenwood); Hygiene and Public Health (Arthur Whitelegge, M.D., B.Sc.); Dwelling-Houses, their Sanitary Condition and Arrangements, second edition (Professor Corfield, M.D.); The Construction of Healthy Dwellings, &c. (Douglas Galton). Sanitary Law.-Epitome of the Laws affecting Health (Fitzgerald); Meat Inspection, Professor Walley. Vital Statistics.-Arthur Newsholme. DIPLOMA IN DENTISTRY. The University grants a Diploma in Dentistry (L.D.S.). Full particulars are contained in a separate leaflet, copies of which will be furnished on application. MEDICAL AND OTHER OFFICERS, Honorary Consulting Surgeons. A. M. STALKER, M.A., M.D. Physicians. LL.D. J. MACKIE WHYTE, M.A., M.D., Extra Physicians. W. E. FOGGIE, M.A., M.D., M. R.C. P. E. Obstetric Physicians and Gynecologists. J. A. CAMPBELL KYNOCH, M. B., C. M., F.R.C.P. and S.E. Physician for Diseases of Children.-JAMES S. Y. ROGERS, D.S.O., Physician for Diseases of the Skin.-F. M. MILNE, M.A., B.Sc., M.B., Ch. B., D.P.H. Surgeons. L. TURTON PRICE, Ch.B., F.R.C.S.E. JOHN ANDERSON, Ch. B., F. R.C.S. E. R. CHARLES ALEXANDER, M.A., Ch. B., F.R.C.S.E. Ophthalmic Surgeon.-ANGUS MACGILLIVRAY, C.M., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E. Honorary Consulting Aural Surgeon.-PETER CAMPBELL, M. B., C. M. Aural Surgeon. ROBERT P. MATHERS, Ch. B. Assistant Physician. W. S. MALCOLM, M. D. Assistant Obstetric Physician and Gynecologist. ALEXANDER E. CHISHOLM, M.B., Ch. B., F. R.C.S. Ed. Assistant Surgeons. FRANCIS R. BROWN, Ch. B., F.R. C.S. E. Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeons. ALLISTER M. MACGILLIVRAY, M. B., Ch.B. A. R. MOODIE, M.D., F.R.C.S. E. Assistant Aural Surgeon.--JOHN M. MORGAN, M.C., M.B., Ch.B. Medical Electricians. G. A. PIRIE, M.A., M.D. Dental Surgeons. W. GRAHAM CAMPBELL, M.B., L. R. SUTHERLAND, M.B., C.M. Clinical Pathologist. G. H. S. MILLN, M.B., Ch.B. W. J. TULLOCH, O. B. E., M. D. Anæsthetists. ARTHUR MILLS, M.D. JOHN M. CLARK, M.B., Ch. B. Ꮓ |