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THIS teaching and research institution was opened two years ago, and an account of its work is given in a paper by one of the staff, Major Knowles. The laboratory has four floors with 220 feet of north light and a shorter wing at right angles to the main front, while the special hospital for tropical diseases has more than 100 beds, both having been constructed and partially endowed at a cost of about 120,000l., nearly two-thirds of which were raised by the founder, Sir Leonard Rogers, and by Major Knowles. The staff of whole-time professors and research workers now numbers thirty-three, special laboratories and investigators being provided for kala-azar, dysenteries, ankylostomiasis, leprosy (for which a separate institute is to be built opposite the school at a cost of another 20,000?.), diabetes and filariasis, all in addition to the teaching staff of the school. The departments now number seventeen, three or four sections commonly combining on one research under the director, Col. J. W. D. Megaw, thus furnishing the team work so essential to success.
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The Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Nature 111, 550–551 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111550b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111550b0