KING EDWARD MEMORIAL
SUGGESTION BY LORD NOKTHCOTE.
Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock. LONDON. November 2. Lord Northcote, 'in a Jett3r to The Times, urge 3 that, in addition to the statue already decided upon, London's memorial to the late King Edv/ard should include support to an Edward the Seventh Tropical Research Fund.
Lord Northcote states that Lord Crewe, Mr Ramsay McDonald, Lord Northampton, Baron Rothschild, Lord Elgin, Lord Kitchener, and Mr Joseph Chamberlain support the proposal, The latter had written that he regretted that he was unable to take an active part in the movement in connection with tropical diseases, which he firmly believed would do more than anything to make tropical life possible for European?.
Lord Northcote instances the fact that 35,95"ci deaths occurred in the City of Havana from yellow fever during the fifty years before the United States commenced remedial measures, and that not a single case occurred in 1907.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 3 November 1910, Page 5
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153KING EDWARD MEMORIAL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 3 November 1910, Page 5
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