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THE tenth Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture was delivered by Sir Malcolm Watson at the annual general meeting of the Research Defence Society, held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on June 9, the president, Lord Lamington, occupying the chair (The Fight against Disease, 24, No. 3, 1936). In order to illustrate the importance of experimental research, Sir Malcolm surveyed the work of Manson upon elephantiasis and filarial periodicity and malaria, of Ross upon malaria and its transmission by mosquitoes, and of Reed upon yellow fever. By applying the knowledge won by Walter Reed and his American colleagues, the city of Havana was within a few months freed from yellow fever for the first time in a hundred and fifty years by exterminating the mosquitoes that convey the disease. Owing to an increase in member's and life-member's subscriptions for 1935, the Research Defence Society has commenced the current year with a small balance in hand.
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Experimental Research and Disease. Nature 138, 197 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138197b0
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