TROPICAL DISEASES.
ANGLO-AMERICAN CONGRESS. London, June 6. The Anglo-American conference on tropical diseases will be held shprtly at the Colonial Office, Mr. E. L. Wood (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State) presiding. The American representatives will be Mr. George Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Mr. Wickliffe Rose, general director of the International Health Board, East. The British delegates will comprise some of the foremost authorities on tropical disease, including Sir John Bradford, Sir Walter Fletcher, MajorGeneral Sir William Leishman, and Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, director of the Tropical Diseases Bureau. The Colonial Office has been closely co-operating with the Rockefeller Foundation, which recently approached the British Government with regard to experimental work in West Africa in connection with yellow fever. In this the Colonial Office has given every facility, and an attempt will now be made to cooperate on a wider basis with regard to fighting in ths trogieftl eokaiw.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1921, Page 5
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