6 TROPICAL MEDICINE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND 



JNIr. Clianil)erlain, in a Report dated May 1903 upon 

 the subject of Tropical Medicine, wrote that — 



"It was laroely tliroiigli tlie interest taken in this matter 

 by Dr. JNlanson tliat my attention was more definitely 

 directed to the importance of scientific inquiry into the 

 causes of malaria, and of special education in tropical 

 medicine for the medical officers of tlie Crown Colonies." 



He then went on to state that — 



" In pursuance of the second of these two objects it was 

 clearly ad^•isable (a) that a special training school in 

 tropical medicine should be established, where officers, 

 newly appointed to the medical serA'ices of the Colonies 

 and Protectorates, might be given systematic instruction 

 with special facilities for clinical study, before leaving 

 England to take up their appointments, and where 

 doctors already in the service might, when on leave, 

 have opportunities of bringing their professional know- 

 ledge up to date ; (/;) that all the leading medical 

 schools in the United Kingdom should be invited to 

 give greater prominence than hitherto in their schemes 

 of study, to tropical medicine. 



" {(■) 'J'hat the medical reports periodically sent from 

 the tropical Colonies and Protectorates should be recast 

 on one uniform type, designed to throw light on the 

 diseases which are prevalent in tropical countries, and 

 to indicate the methods likely to be most successful in 

 preventing or curing such disease." 



Previously, on ]\Luch 11, 1898, ISlr. Chamberlain 

 had addressed a circular letter to the General iMedical 

 Council and the leading medical schools of the United 

 Kingdom pointing out-=- 



