LATE SIR R. ROSS
HIS CONQUEST OF MALARIA-. M (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Setember 17. When the late Sir Ronald Ros's, entered the Indian medical service ini 1881, malaria constituted the greatest: danger to residents in tropical • cli-. mates. The year before, in 1880/ Dr-: Laveran, a French physician, had identified, the malarial germs and 'Sir; Patrick Manson had suggested their carriage by mosquitoes, It remained; for Sir R. Ross, in the face of. discouragement and ridicule, and after! long, patient research into the malaria! of birds and human beings, to inden-; tify the Anopheles Mosquito as "a; carrier. In 1899, after ai visit to West Africa, Sir R. Ross became Pro-: fessor of Tropical Medicines at the; University of Liverpool. Visits byhim followed to malarious districts alii over the world, including Panama,, Mauritius and Cyprus.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1932, Page 6
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