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IT was inevitable that the work of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which has exerted so profound an influence on the teaching and practice of tropical medicine by both British and other medical men, should have been radically affected by the War. The report of the School's work during 1943–44 shows how much its normal activities have been altered. Not only have thirty-six members of the staff been engaged on full-time war service, but also specific war problems have been studied at home, and the School has provided accommodation for members of the staff of the Medical Research Council and of the University of London, who are doing work of national importance. Nor have the School's buildings escaped war damage. Yet, during the year, it has been possible to give courses in tropical medicine to some five hundred Service medical officers and other special courses to 151 students. The acting dean, Prof. M. Greenwood, and the whole School are to be congratulated upon the year's work. It is gratifying to know that it has been possible to do, as well as war work, some fundamental research of a kind which is vital to the very existence of science, yet is, in the words of Prof. Greenwood, "slighted in wartime because the results may not be of immediate technological importance".
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Nature 155, 583–584 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155583a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155583a0