Tropical Medicine
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New English Research Body
TN consultation with the British Colonial Office, the Medical Research Council has established a Tropical Medical Re search Committee. The new body will advise and assist in the direction of in vestigations into problems of health and disease in tropical climates, and make suggestions generally as to research in this field.
The committee will be a purely scientific body. It will include representatives of the Colonial Office and of the Liverpool and London Schools of Tropical Medicine, with other members appointed as indi vidual experts in tropical diseases.
The following will serve in the first in stance:— Professor J. C. G. Ledingham, C.M.G..
P.R.S. (chairman), Professor A. J. Clark, M.C., F.R.S., Dr. N. Hamilton Fairley, 0.8. E., Professor W. W. Jameson. Dr.
Edward Mellanby, F.R.S., Dr. Muriel Rob ertson, Major-General Sir Leonard Rogers, K.C.5.1., F.R.S., Dr. H. Harold Scott. Sir Thomas Stanton. K.C.M.G.. Dr.
C. M. Wenyon, C.M.G., F.R.S., Professor Warrington Yorke, F.R.S., and Dr. A.
Landsborough Thomson, C.B. (secretary).
Research in tropical medicine has al ways been of concern to the Medical Re search Council, whose constitutional position under a Committee of the Privy Council leaves its work unrestricted by territorial limitations. The council has. however, not hitherto been able to assist investigations in the tropics except on isolated occasions, although it has regu larly made grants for work in England in relation to tropical problems.
The step which is now announced indi cates an intention to talce a more active part in work in this field.