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A MEETING of the Industrial Advisory Committee of the Ross Institute (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) was held on April 16 under the chairmanship of Mr. G. H. Masefield, when reports were received upon the Institute's activities in India, Ceylon, and South, East, and West Africa. Malaria prevention has received much attention, and in-stances were given of the value of mosquito control in combating this disease. Other diseases, including yellow fever and the eye-fly pest of India and Ceylon, were also discussed. Allusion was made to the value of reinforced aluminium foil as a heat insulator; in a tea factory in Ceylon a reduction of temperature of 7° F. at noon in the rolling room had been obtained by its use.
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Prevention of Disease in the Tropics. Nature 138, 71 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138071c0
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