MAN AND MOSQUITO

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 9

MAN AND MOSQUITO

MASS ATTACK PLANNED

COMBATTING MALARIA

SIR RONALD ROSS'S WORK

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 28th February, 8 a.m.)

LONDON, 26th February.

. Sir Ronald Ross has just returned from a four thousand miles tour of India and Malaya. Nevertheless, he was in his laboratory yesterday, planning a new mass attack on' mosquitoes. He said: "Damage done by the mosquito costs millions annually; so it is time the Empire took an intelligent interest in the work of prevention. It takes a quarter of a century for the public mind to' grasp the significance of a new discovery, and, although we are now beginning to feel the benefit of the antimalaria campaign, the task will not be completed until the end of the century. Efforts to check malaria are frequently undone by a neighbour who let 3 the mosquito breed at will; so I am preparing a scheme for the establishment of malaria, boards to supervise and direct the work."

Sir Ronald Ross, British physician and bacteriologist, was born In India in 1857. Hg studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and in 1881 entered the Indian medical service. About 1893 he commenced a series of special investigations on the subject of malaria, and by 1895 had arrived at his theory that the microorganisms of-this disease are spread by mosquitoes. He retired from th« Indian medical service in 1899, and devoted himeslf to research and teaching, joining the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as lecturer. • Subsequently he became: professor of tropical medicine at Liverpool University, and in 1913 he was appointed physician to King's College, London. During the Grat War Sir Ronald was appointed to the R.A.M.C., and became War Office consultant in regard to malaria. In 1902 he received the Nobel Prize for medicine, in 1911 a X.C.8.. and in 1918 a K.C.M.G. He published in 1910 his great standard' work on the prevention of malaria, and has since published a volume of poems and a romance.