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PUBLIC HEALTH.
Branch. Thirteen meetings had been held with an average attendance of 21 at the Ordinary Meetings. The following, who had been nominated as Officers for the Session 1922-23 were unanimously elected on the proposition of the President (Dr. Talent), seconded by Dr. Adams : President, Dr. E. W. Rees Jones; Hon. Treasurer, Dr. H. H. I. Hitchon; Hon. Secretary, Dr. G. W. N. Joseph; Council Representatives, Dr. T. W . N. Barlow, O.B.E., Dr. James ~Vheatley, Dr. E. ~V. Rees Jones, and the Hon. Secretary; Committee, Drs. Daley, Lissant Cox, Morley Mathieson, and Peyton, together with the Vice-Presidents and Officers. A suggestion that Presidents of Sub-groups should " ex-officio " become members of the Branch Committee was favourably received and referred to the Committee. A letter was read from the West Lancashire Association for the Care of the Mentally Defective, asking the Branch to nominate a representative on the Executive Council of that body. It was resolved that Dr. Kingsford be appointed representative. Dr. Rees Jones (President-Elect) announced the arrangements that had been made for the afternoon and -was thanked by the members for his efforts on their behalf. At the close of the business the Mayor of Blackpool (Councillor David Dickinson, J.P.) entered the Council Chamber and welcomed the members in a short speech. On the proposition of the President (Dr. J. W . Talent), seconded by Dr. YV. Allen Daley, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Mayor for his invitation to the Branch to meet this year in Blackpool. After the meeting the members adjourned to the Mayor's Parlour and thence to the Clifton Hotel, where an excellent lunch was kindly provided by the Mayor. The afternoon was spent in visiting municipal institutions or the various attractions on the beach, and the members were entertained at tea later at the Clifton Hotel by the President. CANCER D E A T H - R A T E . The Health Committee of the Corporation of Leicester, being impressed with the increasing number of deaths from Cancer, have decided to act on the same lines as have been followed by the Portsmouth Health Committee for some years, and an advertisement has been issued drawing attention to the ravages of Cancer and urging the importance of immediateresort to skilled medical advice= as soon as any signs or symptoms occur
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which may be regarded as being in any way suspicious of Cancer. The advertisement also mentions that a leaflet describing some of the early symptoms can be obtained on application at the Health Department. CORRESPONDENCE. The Editor does not accept responsibility for the opinions of correspondents. TRAINING FOR THE D.P.H. From Dr. A. P R I E S T M A N . Dear S i r , - - H a v i n g served in the Public Health Service for nine years and suffered recently under the training provided for those wishing to take the " D . P . H . " at Edinburgh University, I would like to make a few remarks upon the article with the above heading in the April number of Public Health. ]'he Draft Regulations mentioned therein may be drastic, but they are not so drastic as the Regulations already in operation at Edinburgh University. These diploma regulations were instituted in 1919, and so " these drastic changes " are not only foreshadowed, illumined by the far-off radiance of the Rockefeller Institute, but are already a grim reality. How far are they satisfactory.~ Let us keep Edinburgh in mind. The length c~ curriculum is one academic year; let us no~ grumble ; there is much to be learned. From early OctOber to Christmas one does four hours a day of chemistry and meteorology in a laboratory, two hours in the morniog and two hours in the afternoon. The work could be comfortably done in the morning in two or three hours and liberate the afternoon for work in some other subject, say bacteriology. But zhemistry dribbles along all day until Christmas--the day is filled. In the evening one hardly knows what or how much to read ; an examination being usually a test as to who can satisfactorily repeat, parrot-like, the wishes-of the Professor; it is usel.ess to read and memorise the ideas professed'lJy others. How nice and easy it all see~ns, this October to Christmas ! and one wonders why one determined to sacrifice a job and a year's salary, and to start paying someone else for a rather idle and very stuffy existence; all Institutes for the teaching of Public Health seem to be examples of how not to ventilate and warm buildings I After Christmas the storms begin, those awful processes which are calculated to produce a certainly temporary and a probably permanent mental stasls. From all sides is uplifted the cry, " Quick, thy tablets, M e m o r y ! " until the poor centre, where She abides, collapses, and all the other attributes of
PUBLIC HEALTH.
Branch. Thirteen meetings had been held with an average attendance of 21 at the Ordinary Meetings. The following, who had been nominated as Officers for the Session 1922-23 were unanimously elected on the proposition of the President (Dr. Talent), seconded by Dr. Adams : President, Dr. E. W. Rees Jones; Hon. Treasurer, Dr. H. H. I. Hitchon; Hon. Secretary, Dr. G. W. N. Joseph; Council Representatives, Dr. T. W . N. Barlow, O.B.E., Dr. James ~Vheatley, Dr. E. ~V. Rees Jones, and the Hon. Secretary; Committee, Drs. Daley, Lissant Cox, Morley Mathieson, and Peyton, together with the Vice-Presidents and Officers. A suggestion that Presidents of Sub-groups should " ex-officio " become members of the Branch Committee was favourably received and referred to the Committee. A letter was read from the West Lancashire Association for the Care of the Mentally Defective, asking the Branch to nominate a representative on the Executive Council of that body. It was resolved that Dr. Kingsford be appointed representative. Dr. Rees Jones (President-Elect) announced the arrangements that had been made for the afternoon and -was thanked by the members for his efforts on their behalf. At the close of the business the Mayor of Blackpool (Councillor David Dickinson, J.P.) entered the Council Chamber and welcomed the members in a short speech. On the proposition of the President (Dr. J. W . Talent), seconded by Dr. YV. Allen Daley, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Mayor for his invitation to the Branch to meet this year in Blackpool. After the meeting the members adjourned to the Mayor's Parlour and thence to the Clifton Hotel, where an excellent lunch was kindly provided by the Mayor. The afternoon was spent in visiting municipal institutions or the various attractions on the beach, and the members were entertained at tea later at the Clifton Hotel by the President. CANCER D E A T H - R A T E . The Health Committee of the Corporation of Leicester, being impressed with the increasing number of deaths from Cancer, have decided to act on the same lines as have been followed by the Portsmouth Health Committee for some years, and an advertisement has been issued drawing attention to the ravages of Cancer and urging the importance of immediateresort to skilled medical advice= as soon as any signs or symptoms occur
JvLv,
which may be regarded as being in any way suspicious of Cancer. The advertisement also mentions that a leaflet describing some of the early symptoms can be obtained on application at the Health Department. CORRESPONDENCE. The Editor does not accept responsibility for the opinions of correspondents. TRAINING FOR THE D.P.H. From Dr. A. P R I E S T M A N . Dear S i r , - - H a v i n g served in the Public Health Service for nine years and suffered recently under the training provided for those wishing to take the " D . P . H . " at Edinburgh University, I would like to make a few remarks upon the article with the above heading in the April number of Public Health. ]'he Draft Regulations mentioned therein may be drastic, but they are not so drastic as the Regulations already in operation at Edinburgh University. These diploma regulations were instituted in 1919, and so " these drastic changes " are not only foreshadowed, illumined by the far-off radiance of the Rockefeller Institute, but are already a grim reality. How far are they satisfactory.~ Let us keep Edinburgh in mind. The length c~ curriculum is one academic year; let us no~ grumble ; there is much to be learned. From early OctOber to Christmas one does four hours a day of chemistry and meteorology in a laboratory, two hours in the morniog and two hours in the afternoon. The work could be comfortably done in the morning in two or three hours and liberate the afternoon for work in some other subject, say bacteriology. But zhemistry dribbles along all day until Christmas--the day is filled. In the evening one hardly knows what or how much to read ; an examination being usually a test as to who can satisfactorily repeat, parrot-like, the wishes-of the Professor; it is usel.ess to read and memorise the ideas professed'lJy others. How nice and easy it all see~ns, this October to Christmas ! and one wonders why one determined to sacrifice a job and a year's salary, and to start paying someone else for a rather idle and very stuffy existence; all Institutes for the teaching of Public Health seem to be examples of how not to ventilate and warm buildings I After Christmas the storms begin, those awful processes which are calculated to produce a certainly temporary and a probably permanent mental stasls. From all sides is uplifted the cry, " Quick, thy tablets, M e m o r y ! " until the poor centre, where She abides, collapses, and all the other attributes of