The Archive · 1921

TROPICAL DISEASES

Anglo-American Conference

London, June 6.

Reuter learns that an Anglo-American conference on tropical diseases will be held shortly at the Colonial Office, Major E. L. Wood, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, presiding. The American representatives will be: Dr. George Vincent, President of the Rockfeller Foundation, Dr. Wickliffe Rose, General Director of the International Health Board, and Dr. Victor H. Iser, Director for the East.

The British delegates comprise some of the foremost authorities on tropical diseases, including Sir John Bradford, the Senior Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office; Sir Walter Fletcher, Secretary of the Medical Research Council; Major-

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