(From sine Moastxo Post.")
The object of the mission of Sir Francis Lovell, C: M.G., around the world is already known: he desires to explain to wealthy people in all tropical countries the value Of the work done by the London School of Tropical Medicine, and to excite in them such a practical interest in that institution as will render possible an extension of its activities. 1t may be well, however, to give some account of tne arguments he may be expected to use. nie school was founded in 1899 consequence of an appeal made by Mr. Chamberlain' to the governors of the Seamen's Hospital at' Greenwich. The Colonial Office gave a grant of £3,500, the Tadia Office £1,000, while at a public dinner, over which Mr, Chamberlain presided, the enormous sum of £16,000 was Subscribed. From the moment that the institution was opened it did not lack for students, There are three terms of three months in the school year, and, since only fully-qualified men are admitted, one term to impart the knowledge they require to fit them for practice in the tropics. It was originally supposed that there would be twelve students at a.time. There have actually been twenty-four from the beginning; applications have had to te refused from some who wished to study at the school during the current term, and already several, men have put their names down for that which begins in January. Now, wherever these men go they are Lound to do work that will be of lasting value to the Empire and to the human race at large. Already two of them, settling in the Campagna, have proved that malaria may be avoided if certain simple precautions are taken, even in those places where it has hitherto been locked on as one of the essential conditions of residence in-the neighbourhood. Another two went out to Brazil to study the cause of yellow fever, and both contracted the disease. One of them, Dr. Myers, died. The other, having recovered, has gone back to his chosen work. Not long ago it was extremely dangerous for Europeans to live in Calcutta; now, because of the adoption of proper sanitary methods, the situation has been entirely hanged' and changes equally start-can be made in other regions made quickly. For example, the Island of Barbados has quired an evil reputation because its inhabitants are peculiarly subject to that most loathsome of diseases. elephantiasis, which is known to be caused by a parasite communicated to the blood by mosiuitobite. Dr. Patrick Manson, F.R.S., Intely declared that it would be quite possible to stamp out the disease in the island within the course of a single generation if only there were a sufficient number of mon on the spot to secure the adoption of the precautions known to be fatal to its propagation. It is therefore surely a lamentable thing that the institution from which such men are sent out into the world should be hampered and restricted for lack of a little money.
Dericenty oF Dracxosis.
Dr. Manson has insisted very strongly, and on several occasions, on the need of this training for men who are to practise in the Tropics. The untrained man who goes out to those regions with just the
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