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THE report for 1937-38 of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine by the dean, Prof. W. Jameson, recently issued, surveys the administrative changes and the teaching and research work of the School during the year. In the Departments of Bacteriology and Epidemiology studies have been in progress for eighteen months on the effect of diet on the fertility, survival and growth of mice, and their resistance to infection, which show that a diet containing a proportion of animal protein, compared with one containing vegetable protein only, renders individual mice more resistant to infection of Bact. typhi-murium, and significantly reduces the mortality inherds in which the disease is spreading by natural contact. In the Department of Entomology much work has been done on the biology of mosquitoes, the bed bug, lice and other parasites, and an important investigation continued on the spread of mineral oils on water in relation to anti-malarial work by destruction of mosquito larvæ. In the Department of Bacteriology studies have been continued upon the isolation of the antigenic components from various bacteria, and their value as immunizing agents. The physiological problems of air raids precautions, in particular gasproof clothing, helminthic parasites of domestic animals, and problems connected with the root eel-worm disease of potatoes, are a few of the other subjects that are under investigation. The Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene reports upon its anti-malarial work in various Colonies, Yugoslavia and South America.
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Nature 142, 1154 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421154b0
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