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AT a recent meeting of the Industrial Advisory Committee of the Ross Institute, Putney Heath, London, S.W., reports were received of the over-seas activities of the Institute. Seven research centres in Assam and northern Bengal have been opened, and anti-malarial work and the testing of new drugs for the treatment of malaria have been pursued there and in Rhodesia and East and South Africa. In the Assam tea gardens, anti-malarial work has resulted in much improved health, for in 1930 among a population of 13,248 the admissions to hospital were 23,226 but in 1932 with a slightly larger population the admissions were reduced to 15,141. A standard oil mixture for killing mosquito larvæ has been devised in conjunction with the Burma-Shell group. The health among lead miners in Yugoslavia was investigated and a health scheme was formulated and is now in operation. At the conclusion of the proceedings, Mr. Still and Sir Malcolm Watson addressed the meeting on the subject of yellow fever. Now that travel by aeroplane is so rapid, the grave danger that infection may be carried from the yellow fever zone in West Africa to East Africa and Asia, which would be followed with disastrous consequences, was emphasised.
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Ross Institute for Tropical Diseases. Nature 131, 301 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131301c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131301c0