LESSONS OF THE WAR
RIDDING WORLD OF TROPICAL DISEASES
Britain’s wartime, experience can rid 'the world of tropical plagues. This was the confident belief of 1 Dr. G. McDonald, director of the Ross Institute expressed at the Royal Society of Arts in London.
“During the past few years,” he; said “we have maintained European armies in the most unhealthy parts of the world and. when our technical knowledge was properly applied there, was no great amount of sickness.
“The problem before us is how to apply this technical knowledge, acrquired in our experience, of armies, for the benefit of the normal inhab-i Hants of these countries.“
Success depended not on fresh advances but on administrative arrangements. Given trained men and women in adequate numbers, drawn from the countries themselves it was possible.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 40, 1 February 1946, Page 2
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