THE TROPICAL SCOURGE
(British Official Wireless).
EXPEDITION TO FIGHT MALARIA. Proceeding To Rhodesia.
RUGBY, Sqpt, 27. An expedjtion ' of malaria ' experts from tbe Ross Institute wiji leaye England to-day by tlie Carnarvon Castle fpr pveventive work in 2000 miles of copper-mining eountry in Northern Rhodesia. The party includes Sir William Simpson, director of tropical hygiene, who is a great anthority on pnhlic health, both at home and ahroad, and has heen a memher of. many Govevnment conn missions, investigating ' eholera in Egypt, plague in Hong Kong, dysen-. ter,y", typhpid fever and plague ip South Africa, yelloiv fever in West Afi'iea, and general sauitation iii Singapore and ihe Goid Coast- _ The expedition is due to the activities of the Ross Institution industrial advisory committee, ivliich is a comhination of husiness men and experts interested in the suqcessful development of the tropical and sub-tropical arqas of the Empire.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 205, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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146THE TROPICAL SCOURGE Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 205, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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