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(1) Over ninety per cent. of the paroxysms in simple tertian malaria occur during the hours of activity in this series 7 a.m. to 6.59 p.m.
(2) The maximum number of paroxysms under these conditions of activity occurred at 2 p.m.
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(3) Alteration of the period of activity by one hour, the result of the adoption summer time," produced a corresponding alteration in the time of incidence of the paroxysms.
Stephens, J. W. W., Yorke, W., Blacklock, B., Macfie, J. W. S., Cooper, C. F., and Carter, H. F. Have differential leucocyte counts any value! Ann. Trop. Med, and Parasit. Vol. XIV, p. 371.
An account of preliminary experiments dealing solely with attempts to determine the mononuclear percentage of the blood of normal persons.
It was shown that considerable difficulties surrounded what has hitherto been regarded as a simple matter.
Yorke, W., and Macfie, J.W.S-Strongylidæ in Horses.
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XI. Species found in West Africa, and Jamaica.
XII. Cylindropharynx rhodesiensis, sp. n.
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We have, &c.,
J. W. W. STEPHENS,
Professor of Tropisał Medicine. WARRINGTON YORKE,
Enclosure 2 in No. 2.
Professor of Parasitology.
1st November, 1920.
WE beg to submit the following report for the period 1st May, 1920, to 31st October, 1920.
Tuition.
The number of students attending the course of instruction for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine during the Autumn term was twelve, and thirteen: veterinary students attended the special course in Veterinary Parasitology.
Staff:
In April, Mr. T. Southwell, hate Director of Fisheries, Bengal and Bihar and Orissa, was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Parasitology.
New Laboratories.
The new laboratories were formally opened, on 24th July, by Lord Leverhulme, Hon. Vice-President and former Chairman of the School.
They are situated in the University grounds, and close to the Royal Infirmary, in which is the Tropical Ward.
The Class Laboratory, 69 feet by 58 feet, is excellently lighted and has an adjoining preparation room.
A special laboratory is set aside. for research on the third floor, and in addition there are a number of research rooms in the departments of Tropical Medicine, Parasitology, and Entomology, respectively. The principal pathogenic organisms are maintained in animals, and are available for teaching purposes and for research. The Museum, a spacious room, 80 feet by 69 feet, contains exhibition cases illustrating malaria, trypanosomiasis, yellow fever, leprosy, plague, ankylos- tomiasis, helminthiasis, the house fly, poisonous snakes, etc., and on the walls are numerous photographs also illustrating these diseases.
The Library, 33 feet by 27 feet, contains, in addition to standard works on tropical medicine and Government and other official publications, over one hundred current medical journals. A complete subject catalogue of the literature, dating from 1912, is maintained. The literature appertaining to Entomology and Para- sitology is kept in the departments devoted respectively to these subjects.
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The Lecture Theatre affords accommodation for about seventy students. The Micro-Photographic Room, with adjoining dark room, is situated in the basement, and is in charge of an expert photographer.
On the roof are a post-mortem room, an insectarium, a mosquito-proofed house, and extensive animal houses.
The occasion of the opening of the new laboratories was marked by the publi- cation of a volume tracing the history of the School from its foundation to the present day (vide Publications).
Sierra Leone Research Laboratory.
In June, the lease of the land allocated by the Colonial and War Offices was signed on behalf of the School by the Chairman and Honorary Treasurer. In July, the plans and estimate for the erection of the new laboratory were provision- ally accepted, and in October they were approved by the War Office, and building was commenced.
Mandos Research Laboratory.
Dr. C. J. Young, the second of the three research assistants appointed in September, 1919, to the staff of the Manáos Research Laboratory, left England in June for Brazil.
A report was received from the Director, Dr. Wolferstan Thomas, on the work- ing of the Manáos Laboratory from January to June, 1920. It was stated that a hookworm and malaria survey of school children in, the suburbs "had been under- taken at the request of the Director of Public Instruction. Up to July, 184 children between the ages of seven and thirteen were examined, of whom ninety- eight per cent. were found to be infected with ankylostomes; there was also a "high infection" with simple tertian malaria.
Dr. Burnie, now stationed at the Candelaria Hospital, reported upon his voyage up the Rio Madeira, during which over a dozen ports of call were visited Hook- worm disease and espundial ulcers were found, to be common, but one case only of malaria was diagnosed. At the Hospital, malaria (especially malignant tertian), syphilis, ulcers of various, kinds, and hookworm infections constituted the greater number of admissions:
Mary Kingsley Medal.
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On the occasion of the opening of the new laboratories, awards of the Mary Kingsley Medal were made to the following distinguished scientific men':
Major Ernest Edward Austen, D.S.Ŏ. Dr. Arthur Gerrard Bagshawe, C.M.G.
Dr. Andrew Balfour, C.B., C.M.G.
Dr. Alphonse Louis Guillaume Broden.
Mrs. Chalmers, in recognition of the work of the late Dr. Albert John
Chalmers.
Professor Battista Grassi.
Professor Robert Thomson Leiper.
Professor Felix Etienne Pierre Mesnil.
Dr. Edmond Sergent.
Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles.
Dr. Temistocle Zammit.
MacGregor Laird Memorial Tablet.
This Tablet, which is inscribed as follows:
In Grateful Memory of
MacGregor Laird,
Born 1808; Died 1881.
He led the first Expedition by Sea to the River Niger in the steamers "Quorra "and "Alburkah "in the year 1833, and was the
Pioneer of British Trade with West Africa.
was presented to the School by his daughter, Miss A. T. Laird, together with a
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photo, portrait of Mr. Laird, and two framed photographs, on opal, of the Alburkah" and the "Quorra," the two steamers of the Liverpool Niger Expedition of 1832.