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PROPOSALS for the amalgamation of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have recently been issued. Argument in favour of amalgamation centres around the promotion of work for the good of the Empire and the prevention of overlapping of the activities of the two bodies. As a result of the amalgamation, a permanent memorial to Sir Ronald Ross will be established in the School in the form of a department to be called the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene. Laboratory accommodation will be provided for Sir Aldo Castellani, at present director of tropical medicine and dermatology at the Ross Institute. He will also be appointed to the staff of the School with the title of director. Sir Malcolm Watson, at present director of tropical hygiene and principal of the Department of Malaria Control at the Ross Institute, will be appointed director of tropical hygiene at the School. The India branch of the Ross Institute will become an intrinsic part of the amalgamated body, and Dr. G. C. Ramsay will continue as principal of the India branch. Major Lockwood Stevens, organising secretary of the Ross Institute, will join the School in a similar capacity.
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Ross Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Nature 132, 198 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132198b0
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