AIDS SIR RONALD ROSS
LADY HOUSTON BUYS PAPERS (United Service) LONDON, Tuesday. Lady Houston, widow of the late shipping magnate, Sir Robert Houston, has purchased for £2,000 the documents prepared by Sir Ronald RO3S, relating to his discoveries in malaria, which will enable him to save millions of lives. The national conscience was shocked a month ago, when the “Daily Mail” announced that Sir Ronald was compelled to sell the papers, owing to the lack of public gratitude for his work. Sir Ronald Ross is Director-in-Chief of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diesases, Putney, and Consultant in Malaria, War Office. He spent many years in studying- the mosquito theory of the origin of malaria, and verified the theory, after an expedition in West Africa in 1899. He was awarded the Xobel Prize for Medicine in 1902. Lady Houston, who received a fortune of several millions on the death of her husband in 1926, was first married to the 9tli Baron Byron, who died in 1917. She gave and administered a Rest Home for War Nurses. She was given the D.B.E. when the Order was instituted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 9
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187AIDS SIR RONALD ROSS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 9
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