Abstract
Abstract The Diploma in Public Health was born in Dublin on 12June 1871, and lived for 103 years. This was only 13 years after the General Council for Medical Education and Registration had been created, and at a time when there was neither structure nor organization in medical education. Much of clinical practice was unethical and unsafe. The Diploma died on 1 October 1974, when the National Health Service, in place for 25 years, was bringing high quality health care, free of direct cost, to everyone who sought it. The occasion of the Diploma’s death was the first of a series of Acts of Parliament which restructured the health service. With this restructuring, the post of Medical Officer of Health ceased, and with it the need for a Diploma in Public Health. Neither had sustaining relevance in a changing world.
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