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118 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT also be stilted and if he have attended at hospitals for mental derangement and diseases of the eye or lying-in institution particulars of such attendance must also be furnished The candidates must be unmarried not beyond twenty-six years of age nor under twenty-one years Candidates who have had an University education and have the degree of or as well as that of will be preferred but liberal education and competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages are indispensably requisite in every candidate and the greater the attainments of the candidates in various branches of science in addition to competent profes- sional knowledge the more eligible will they subsequently be deemed for pro- motion in the service for selections to fill up vacancies will be guided more by reference to such acquirements than to mere seniority Before promotion from the rank of Assistant-Surgeon to any liigher rank every gentleman must bo prepared for such other examination as may be ordered before board 01' medieul officers Section XIX regulation 0γ the medical department OF the navy The Right Uon the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having been pleased to direct that no person be admitted as an Assistant-Surgeon in the Royal Navy who shall not produce certificate from one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of London Edinburgh or Dublin of his fitness for that office nor as Surgeon unless he shall produce diploma or certificate from one of the said Royal Colleges founded on an examination to be passsed subsequently to his appointment of Assistant-Surgeon as to the candidate's fitness for the situation of Surgeon in the Navy and in every case the candidate producing such certificate or diploma shall also undergo further examination before the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy touching his qualifi- cations in all the necessary branches and points of medicine and surgery for each of the steps in the Naval Medical Service" the Inspector-General doth hereby signify for the information of those persons to whom it may relate that these regidatious and directions will be strictly adhered to and further that previously to the admission of Assistant-Surgeons into the Navy it will be required that they produce proof of having received preliminary classical education and that they possess in particular competent knowledge of Latin also that they are of good moral character the certificate of which must be signed by the clergyman of the parish or by magistrate of the district That they have served an apprenticeship or have been engaged for not less than six months in Practical Pharmacy That their age be not less than twenty years nor more than twenty-four and that they are unmarried That they have actually attended hospital iu Loudon Edinburgh Dublin