SCHOOL OF HYGIENE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17430, 15 April 1922, Page 7

SCHOOL OF HYGIENE.

I MimnncENT gift 'rsxm ' AKBBZOA. . (rBOX OTJJi OWN OOKRXStoNDKKT.) LONDON, February 28. To an audience asscmbled'to bear * lecture on the "Hygiene of Dress," Mr Grant' Ramsay, the president of the In* atituie offlj'giene, mentioned that.the Rockefeller iroundation had generously offered the sum of two million dollars (£454*000 tithe present rate of ex- " change), toward the cost, of building alid trapping 4 School of Hygiene in London. This offer was very inspiring ftßd rety encoaragHig. Hie science of hygiene toolc * far more important pkce in the United States than it does 'toe: it is an important matter in which England hm been laggingbehind. The cofldltiott attached was that the British doramineat should sabscribe £26,000 annttaily lor five years for tha j of tfiu uutitstti ' »«" bMi «■ 1815, the Institute of Hygiene plaimed a grest central boildmg ia MarjfJebane raid, bat Mr Grant Baffisayjuid the estimate at date of m 7,000 lor building alone made it xatpossum to. proceed. A year ago a new- eetanato was obtained, and it *lia -t would approximate SttteJriy' tlurmattor came before the Goveroment, throng)* the Ministry of Health, as one of urgency, and a corannttee was spjtoihtod to consider the pPWWoa o* facilities fry post-graduate aedidu edtnsrtion in London. They the establishment of'lt B«»ooi of Hygiene, asid a new committee of experts, under the chairmanship

of the Healtli Minister, in turn considered the recommendation. Everyone i was persaaded of the importance of . suoh a scheme, but the Britißh Go- , vernment felt that it was impossible , to allocate the necessary funds at a ; period of such financial difficulty as the present. They therefore placed the, • whole facts before the Rockefeller Institute, with the result that the offer of 2,000,000 dollars was made, and a period of five years allowed for 1 »y----ment of the British Government's contribution to staffing and maintenance. Wlffle declining to reveal anything about the' precise whereabouts' of the site of the school an official of the Ministry Baid: "I think you may as.tume that it will not be a long way from London." The main work of the school Will be to teach doctors the latest and best ways of curing epidemic diseases, with special attention to tropical diseases. In June, 1920, the Rockefeller Foundation gave £1,205,000 to University College hospital Medina: School and University College, Lm<l» », for teaching and research.