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Tropical Scliool 1ms been founded in Australia, under 

 the directorsliip of Dr. Anton Breinl ; splendid work 

 has also been accomplislied by the ^Vellcome Research 

 Laboratories at Khartoum, under Dr. Balfour. 



At JNlanilla, Havana, and Rio special endowed 

 departments have been formed to encourage tropical 

 research and hygiene, and regular first-class publica- 

 tions are now issued from these centres. In the West 

 Indies and on tlie West Coast of Africa laboratories have 

 also been established to encourage investigation ; and 

 finally three important advisory boards have been formed 

 in connection with tlie Colonial Office to advise on 

 matters connected witli health progress and medical 

 organisation in the Tropics. These three Boards are : 

 The National Bureau of Sleeping Sickness, The West 

 African Medical Advisory Committee, and the Ento- 

 mological Committee. All are accomplishing excellent 

 woi'k. 



I will in the following pages bring forward the 

 bed-rock facts upon wiiicli 1 base my assertion that 

 in the study of tropical medicine — that is to say, by 

 the study of a wider medicine as distinguished from 

 the parochial, local, or older form — nations possess a 

 force wiiich above all others can wTCst vast provinces 

 from the sway of the insect pests which, though minute 

 in size, yet in their aggregate mass have defied and 

 hurled back man when he has ventured into their 

 domain, or completely wiped out those wiio tried to 

 gain a foothold. The narrative would appear more 

 like a fairy tale w^ere it not based upon easily accessible 

 reports and figures, 



