Medical Science In The

Tropics

ALL persons who carry responsibility in tropical administration will be in terested to learn of a new book by Professor D. B. Blacklock, M.D., of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

It is entitled “An Empire Problem Houses and Villages in the Tropics” and its purpose is to show that any real progress in sanitation in the tropics of the Empire will depend on co-operation between the large industries of Great Britain and the local Governments. The professor shows how the development of British tropical countries has been as sisted by the application of the discov eries of tropical medicine, and he in sists that if there is to be continued progress there must be application on an increasing scale of preventive meas ures, in line with the expanding discov eries of medical science. The scale de manded is outside the power of the local medical and health organisations.

Here are some of the sectional head ings in the book:—“The Growth of Tropical Medicine”, “Medical Staffs in the" Tropics”, “Tropical Medicine and Trade”, “Sanitation in the Tropics as a Medical Problem and as an Industrial Problem”, “Disease Conditions Connected with the House, the Water Supply, and the Latrine”.

The writer’s arguments are based, for the most part, upon African conditions.

The price of the book is 3/6 sterling, and copies may be obtained from Messrs.

Hodder and Stoughton, publishers, Lon don.

Rev. J. Maurer, of Lae, New Guinea recently married Miss Magdalene Pavel of Kitzingen, Germany, at the Lutherar Mission Church, Lae.