MALARIA SCOURGE
EXPEDITION TO RHODESIA x . (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 27. An expedition of malaria experts from the Ross Institute will leave England to-day by the Carnarvon Castle for preventive work in 2000 miles of copper-mining country in Northern Rhodesia.
The party includes Sir William Simpson, director of tropical hygiene, who is a great authority on public health both at Home and. abroad, and has been a member of many Government Commissions investigating cholera in Egypt, plague in Hong-Kong, dysentery, typhoid fever and plague in South Africa, yellow fever in West Africa, and general sanitation in Singapore and Gold Coast. The expedition is due to the activities of the Ross Institution Industrial Advisory Committee, which is a combination of business men and experts Interested in the successful development of the tropical and sub-tropical areas of the Empire.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 October 1929, Page 2
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