TROPICAL DISEASES.
PREVENTIVE SCHEME. (Britis.li Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 29. An expedition of malaria experts from the Ross Institute left England on Friday by the Carnarvon Castle for preventive work in an area of 2000 miles of copper-mining country in Northern Rhodesia. The party will include Sir William Simpson, director of tropical livgiene. who is a great authority on public health, both at home and abroad. He has been a member of many Government commissions and has investigated cholera in Egypt, plague in Hongkong, dysentery, typhoid fever and plague in South Africa, yellow fever in West Africa, and general sanitation in Singapore and the Gold Coast. The expedition is due to the activities of the Ross Institution's Industrial Advisory Committee, which is a combination of business in on and expert? interested in the successful development of the tropical and sub-tropical areas of the Empire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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