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his return to England he was appointed house physician to the 

 Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. So well had he upheld 

 the honoured name of Rake at Guy's (where his father studied 30 

 years before) that his younger brothers who followed him needed 

 no other introduction than that they bore his name. He was 

 offered by the Colonial Office the post of superintendent of the 

 Leper Asylum in this Island in 1883. Soon after his arrival he 

 married — his wife coming out to Trinidad as soon as he had 

 made a home for her. In June of the following year he 

 experienced a severe attack of malarial fever from which, con- 

 trary to the expectations of the physicians who attended him, he 

 escaped, but with impaired health, and he never recovered his 

 former strength. Dr. Rake had not been long in the Island 

 before his talent and persevering industry gained for him the 

 highest opinions of the Government and the medical fraternity. 

 He set himself to work with his accustomed energy to become 

 acquainted with the little understood and loathsome disease 

 with which those entrusted to his care were infected, and ere 

 long sent his first communication on the subject " Tuberculous 

 Leprosy of the Tongue and Larynx " to the London Pathological 

 Society. This was in 1885. During the following year he made 

 seven communications to the Society, and subsequently forwarded 

 many instructive specimens and valuable observations and experi- 

 ments on bacilli and inoculation. In this way and by his Annual 

 Reports on the work of the Asylum he quickly established a 

 world-wide reputation as an authority on Leprosy, his researches 

 into which occupied much of his leisure time. Not content with 

 the ample material by which he was surrounded in Trinidad, his 

 biennial vacations were spent in visiting the centres of leprosy 

 in other countries in Norway, Spain and Tangier. The Leprosy 

 Commission, appointed subsequent to the interest which was 

 roused by the death of the saintly and heroic Father Damien, led 

 to the late Sir Andrew Clarke, on behalf of the Royal College 

 Physicians (which was requested to nominate one of the Com- 

 missioners) nominating Dr. Rake who accepted it with 

 the permission of the Colonial Office. Still further honour 

 awaited him, for when the five Commissioners met they elected 

 Dr. Rake their president. The Commission visited India and 

 travelled all over that vast country ; and the report of the 

 Leprosy Commission has become a standard work on the disease. 

 The Indian climate further impaired his already undermined 

 constitution, and at one time it was doubtful whether he would 

 ever see England again, He however recovered sufficiently to go 

 home, but his stay was only a short one, for he wanted to get 

 back again to his work amongst the lepers in Trinidad. 

 It may not be out of place here to refer to the Annual Reports 

 Avhich Dr. Rake issued during his administration of the Leper 



