Candidates for examination shall present to the board, at least ten days before the examination, a written application on a form provided by the board, setting forth under affidavit the name, age, nativity, residence, moral character and time spent in obtaining a common school education, or its equivalent; and that the candidate has received a certificate or diploma from a legally incorporated school of midwifery, or maternity hospital, in good standing in the opinion of the board at the time of issuing the certificate or diploma, granted after at least eighteen hundred hours’ instruction within a period of not less than nine months, or a certificate or diploma from a foreign institution of midwifery of equal requirements as determined by the board, conferring the full right to practice midwifery in the country in which it was issued. The application must bear the seal of the institution from which the applicant was graduated. Foreign graduates must present with the application a translation of their foreign certificate or diploma, made by and under the seal of the consulate of the country in which the certificate or diploma was issued. Applications must be indorsed by a registered physician of this state.