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IN the death of Prof C. A. Bentley, tropical sanitation has lost an ardent and zealous worker and an established authority on malaria. In his early work in Assam, Bantley made many contributions to tropical medicine, including recognition of the cause of 'ground itch coolie labour as due to penetration of the skin by ankylostome larvæ and the finding of the Leishman-Donovan bodies in kala azar, thus establishing the true nature of this important disease. With Christophers he was joint author of a monographic report on blackwater fever, establishing the dependence of this disease on long-continued malarial infection. In 1909 ho was appointed to special duty under the Government of Bombay to investigate the malaria conditions in Bombay City, his report embodying his results and recommendations being one of the most complete malaria surveys ever carried out and to this day a classic. Later, as Director of Public Health with the Government of Bengal, Bentley was instrumental in. securing large-scale anti-malaria measures in that Presidency, including an active policy of quinine distribution and measures for combating malaria in the unhealthy sracts of certain dying river systems, a subject on which he wrote many important reports. Following his retirement from India, Bentley was appointed to the dhair of hygiene in the Egyptian University, Cairo. Just before his death he had been made director of the London Office of the Dutch Cinchona Bureau, an appointment in which he had hoped to renew his ever-abiding interest in quinine.
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Prof. C. A. Bentley, C.I.E.. Nature 164, 1116 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641116b0
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