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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 219 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 higher rank every gentleman must be prepared for such other examinations as may be ordered before aboard of medical officers VII REGULATIONS OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY Admiralty Somerset House The Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to direct that the following Regulations relative to the Examination of Can- didates for the Appointment of Assistant-Surgeon in the Royal Navy shall in future be adopted That Candidate for entry into the Royal Navy shall make written applica- tion to that effect addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty Somerset House on the receipt of which application he will be furnished with the Regulations and printed form to be filled up by him to show if he possesses the required qualifications No person will be admitted as an Assistant-Surgeon in the Royal Navy who shall not produce certificate of being registered under the Medical Act and diploma from one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons oi England Edinburgh or Dublin from the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from Trinity College Dublin or from other Corporate Body legally entitled to grant diploma in Surgery nor as Surgeon unless he shall produce certificate from one of the said Colleges Faculty or Corporate Body founded on an examination to be passed subsequently to his appointment of Assistant-Surgeon as to his fitness for the situation of Surgeon in the Navy and in every case the candidate producing such diploma and certificate shall also undergo further examina- tion touching his qualifications in all the necessary branches and points of Medicine and Surgery both at the time of his entering and after serving three years to render himself eligible for Surgeon Candidates for the office of Assistant-Surgeon will further be required to 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 Prac- tical Pharmacy that their age is not less than twenty years nor more than twenty-six that they have actually attended recognised hospital for 18 months subsequently to the age of eighteen in which hospital the average number of patients is not less than 100 that they have been engaged in actual dissections of the human body twelve months ן the certificate of which from the teacher must state the number of subjects or parts dissected by the Candidate that they have attended lectures &c on the following subjects at established