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of my receiving from the Dental Board of Examiners a license
entitling me to practice dental surgery and dentistry in Tasmania,
to refrain from conducting my practice by means of the exhibi-
tion of dental specimens, appliances or apparatus, in an open
shop, window or show-case, or otherwise exposed to public in-
spection, or by the means of public advertisements or circulars
describing modes of practice or patented or secret processes, or
by the publication of a scale of professional charges, or to
employ any other unbecoming modes of attracting business, nor
will I allow my name to appear in connection with anyone who
does so. I also promise, so far as lies in my power, to maintain
the honor and interests of the dental profession, and the spirit
and provisions ot " The Dentists Act," so long as I hold the
license of the Dental Board of Examiners."

TITLE AND DIPLOMA.
Those candidates who have obtained the " License " of the
Board of Examiners shall be entitled to the designation of
" Licentiate in Dental Surgery of Tasmania."
The Register of Dentists gives the number as follows (Jan-
uary 5, 1891): Launceston, 15; Hobart, 8; Westbury, Deloraine,
Torquay, Waratah, Cambridge Road, Oatlands, Latrobe, Stan-
ley, Scottsdale, Ulserstone, Longford and Timaru, New Zealand,
each, 1. The whole number, 35.
There are two schools of dentistry in the colony, one at
Hobart and one at Launceston, each in connection with the gen-
eral hospitals of these cities. They are government institu-
tions.
From the report for 1892, of the General Hospital of Launces-
ton, we are in position to reprint the following:
" The steady increase in the numbers seeking the help and
advice of the dental surgeons evidences the continued and grow-
ing usefulness of this department, as providing a means for the
poorer classes of relief from a diseased and defective condition
of the teeth.
" Besides the inmates of other public institutions which have
received attention in this department of the hospital, the chil-
dren from the Girls' Industrial School have attended on differ-
ent occasions during the year for the purpose of having their
teeth examined and such treatment as each case required.
" I have again much pleasure in noticing an increase in the