Calendar: 1866-1867 Page 246

246 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT VIII REGULATIONS OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVT 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 applies- 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 As vacancies occur the number of Candidates required will be ordered to attend at the Admiralty Office bringing with them the requisite Certificates showing that they are fully qualified by Age Professional Ability &c when they will be examined by Board of Medical Officers to be named by their Lordships Such Candidates as shall have been found in all respects competent for the Appointment of Assistant Surgeon will be forthwith nominated to one of the Naval Hospitals at Home to await Appointments to any of Her Majesty's Ships or should their services not be immediately required their names will he duly registered for early Appointments as Vacancies may occur 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 of 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 subsequent to his appointment of Assistant-Surgeon as to his fitness for the situation of Surgeon in the Navy and in every case the person 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 and that previous 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 appren- ticeship or have been engaged for not less than six months in Practical Phar- macy 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 dis- sections of the human body twelve months the certificate of which from the teacher must state the number of subjects or parts dissected by the Candidate