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A MEETING of this Committee, at which the chairman, Mr. G. H. Masefield, presided, was held on January 29 last at the rooms of the Indian Tea Association. The meeting was addressed by Sir Malcolm Watson, who described some of the anti-malarial measures that have been undertaken in Southern Rhodesia, Beira and some of the Gold Coast mines, by Mr. A. Wigglesworth, who raised the question of malarial conditions on sisal estates, and by others. Dr. Ramsay, of the Ross Institute in India, mentioned the ‘eye fly’, which is not only a nuisance but also a danger, as it transmits catarrhal conjunctivitis, and against which no effective measures are known except protection by means of wire gauze spectacles. Sir Malcolm Watson directed attention to a booklet on the prevention of malaria which is distributed free to those residing in, or proceeding to, the tropics. The Ross Institute, which is amalgamated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is the medium through which industries in the tropics keep in touch with the work of the combined bodies and seek advice, and some £15,000 are required annually from voluntary subscriptions for propaganda work and appeals.
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Ross Institute Industrial Advisory Committee. Nature 135, 839 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135839c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135839c0