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CERTAIN matters of no little moment in relation to scientific research and its application to problems of Colonial development were mentioned in the debate on the second reading of Mr. Malcolm Mac-Donald's Bill to which it was not possible to refer in NATURE of June 1 (see p. 853). Mr. MacDonald had stressed the facilities which the Bill would afford not only in erecting buildings for clinics, hospitals and schools, to which grants under the existing Colonial Development Act are confined, but also in assisting their maintenance after erection, as well as steadily increasing the opportunities for medical and veterinary research and of health measures of all kinds. The importance of the assistance in maintenance was more fully brought out by Sir Francis Fremantle, who stressed its importance in relation to education, which he urged should be directed towards the objects which appealed to the natives, namely, agriculture and health. His experience as a sanitary officer in Mesopotamia during the War of 1914-18 brought him into relation with various races whose intelligence-even of the most primitive of them-in malaria prevention after even a short course of instruction had astonished him. After referring to the results and needs of research on leprosy, he went on to point to the achievement on exiguous resources of small hospitals and clinics in Zuzuland. In research he urged that a great deal could be done in regard to the native population, especially in the matter of psychology.
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Colonial Development and Allied Co-operation. Nature 145, 888–889 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145888b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145888b0