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OPENING BY THE PRINCE OF WALES NO ceremony relating to the health and welfare of the British Empire has attracted so wide an interest as the opening of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on July 15. It was the outward and visible sign of the initial success of a movement started more than three years ago to found a Ross Institute for Tropical Diseases which should include a Research Hospital. That movement had several objects in view, namely, to do honour to Ross while living for his epoch-making discovery of the method of transmission of malaria to human beings, to commemorate for all time his great achievement, to further the much-needed work of research in the prevention and treatment of tropical and sub-tropical diseases, to create a more general professional and public interest in the prevention and treatment of tropical diseases throughout the vast possessions of Great Britain in the tropics, and to assist medical men to carry out research work.
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The Ross Institute and Hospital. Nature 118, 124–126 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118124a0
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