8 TROPICAL IMEDICINE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND 



The founder of tlie Liverpool School was the late 

 Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G., who then became the first 

 chairman of the school. By thus placing at the head of 

 tropical medicine in Liverpool a great and distinguished 

 business man having large interests in the tropics, the 

 school was at once drawn into close relationship with 

 the mercantile community of Liverpool, especially with 

 that portion more directly interested in the trade 

 of our tropical possessions. The interest in the local 

 movement was, however, not confined to the mercantile 

 community ; the late Earl Derby and tlie Countess of 

 Derby, the Duke of Northumberland, Earl Cromer, 

 and many others took a keen interest in the movement. 

 Expeditions were organised and dispatched to all parts 

 of the tropical world to study tlie diseases on the 

 spot, a necessity which INIr. Chamberlain had already 

 insisted upon. The gain of this has been, that 

 not only has our knowledge of the diseases been 

 immensely increased, but the way has been pointed 

 out of preventing their spreading or suppressing them 

 altogether. 



Both schools entered into friendly rivalry with one 

 another in equipping and sending out investigators, and 

 both at the same time started courses of instruction for 

 medical officers proceeding to the tropics. Nor were 

 the services of the schools confined to British pos- 

 sessions ; they were freely consulted by foreign Govern- 

 ments, and, thanks to the fact that Sir Patrick JManson, 

 K.C.INI.G., was the head of the London School, and 

 Major Ross, C.B., the Professor of Tropical JNIedicine 

 ii) the Liverpool School, the keei)est ii)itellects fi'ciji 



