Dr. Hugh Campbell Ross, the well-known research worker, has died from pneumonia while on his way home to England, He was buried Jat sea off Aden, Dr. Ross was at one time Medical Officer of Health in Cairo and under Lord Cromer's administration started, Ja_campaign for the extermination fof the mosquito. For the last eighteen years he had concentrated upon cancer and since 1910 had been, Director of the McFadden Research Foundation, In the course of hi wwestigations he visited the Pitcairn Islands, where cancer is rare, in order to examine the method of life prevailing there—Britich Wireless, through Reuter.
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