1919. | The Sixth Indian Science Congress. ecv 
who had much to do with the initiation of this scheme and 
with the selecting of the workers. chose an admirable team, 
each individual was endowed with different qualities and the 
whole team made a splendid working party under the leadership 
of the late Major Lamb. The Advisory Committee never failed 
to comply with all reasonable requests for financial estate 
made by the workers in India. The workers themselves 
decided to co-operate together and publish all their at) in the 
common name of the Plague Research Commission. The result 
of this Commission’s work is well known to you all: through 
their efforts more is known about plague than probably any 
other disease. 
I have taken the liberty of recounting some of my personal 
experiences in connection with research, for I think valuable 
search : the success of the Plague Research Commission. however, 
did much to change this attitude. The Research Fund Asso- 
ciation has been established and is supported by Government. 
The funds are distributed on the advice of a Scientific rare 
Board which came into being shortly before the war. The 
tivities of this seraaaemelgs have been somewhat sibivaned ¢ on 
account of the war but good teork has been accomplished. 
Reorganization is moatenaiaea which will result in closer co- 
operation between the different branches of medicine. Revie 
ing some of the work of the Plague Research Commission a a 
bs similar gathering to this held in Bombay in the year 1911, 
aid :— It will be convenient in a brief review of this kind 
‘e nioaider separately the work done in the laboratory and that 
accomplished in-the field and in the hospital. These different 
departments of the work, however, deen be regarded as dis- 
tinct from one another, any one branch of the work could not 
be pursued profitably without the assistance and co-operation 
of the other. We have referred to this matter because we 
think it is one which should be seriously considered by this 
Sanitary Conference. It appears to us that at the present 
time in India there is too great a tendency to confine work and 
workers to special departments so that there is an absence of 
mutual co-operation in the different departments—the sanitary, 
the bacteriological and the clinical branches of our profession 
are becoming too specialised. There can be no reason why a 
anitary officer should not be a good doctor, and we are certain 
that neither the sanitary officer nor the clinician can carry out 
their work successfully unless they are bacteriologists. oe 
largely due to the fact that the laboratory a0 has been com- 
bined with work in the field and in the hos 
But, Gentlemen, co-operation is not nore’ During the 
course of the late war we frequently heard that what was 
