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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC HEALTH.

A Joint Health Board guided by the State Board of Health is now
functioning in Albemarle County, Charlottesville, and the University. The
county health work is now ending its third year of successful effort. The
authorities in charge of the health work and those in charge at the University
of Virginia are at present engaged in arranging for coöperation of
the University and the Joint Health Board for teaching public health under
University auspices. Full announcement of the courses available will be
made in a separate publication. At present two courses are offered which
are designed particularly to meet the needs of the counties of Virginia and
of the smaller towns.

Course No. 1. Training for Rural Health Officers. Medical graduates
will be received for twelve weeks of intensive training in the practical work
of public health in county and town. These students will be under the
supervision of the Director of the Public Health Unit and will receive training
as apprentices; in addition they may be assigned for special training in
one of the laboratories or hospital branches of the University.

The training will include the usual field work in problems of sanitation,
water supply, farm hygiene, school inspection and follow-up work, rural
health nursing work, the organization and conduct of clinics for the diagnosis
of tuberculosis, baby welfare, dental work, etc., and in the office management
of a health office for a county or town.

Upon successfully completing twelve weeks of training the applicant
will be recommended by the authorities of the University to the State Board
of Health for work as director of a rural health unit.

Classes limited to five. Correspondence and inquiries relative to this
course should be addressed to the Department of Medicine.

Course No. 2. Training for Sanitary Inspectors. High school graduates
of twenty-one years or over and those having equivalent training will
be received for practical instruction with the Health Board. Such applicants
will be taught the fundamental duties of a Sanitary Inspector through
practical training in Albemarle County and Charlottesville. They will be
under the supervision of the Director of the Joint Health Board. After
satisfactorily completing ten weeks of such training the student will receive
from the University a card certifying to the State Board of Health that he
has the training necessary for a rural sanitary inspector.

Classes limited to five. Correspondence and inquiries should be addressed
to the Department of Medicine.