TROPICAL DISEASES
SPECIAL SCHOOLS URGED (Times Cables.) LONDON, Dec. 23. The Times Cairo correspondent states that the International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Hygiene passed a resolution that, firstly, in view of the importance of anthropometric and morphological studies, not only regarding (he classification of the human races but (he ethnological aptitude of individuals, this question should be specially studied hv the faculties and schools of medicine in the tropics; secondly, in view of leprosy menacing humanity, tho governments' of all nations represented at the conference should co-operate systematically to combat the disease by discovering sufferers and organising intensive ambulation treatment in its early stages.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 7
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105TROPICAL DISEASES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 7
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