LONDON LETTER. The

Liverpool

Diseases

was

School

of

Tropical

formally opened by

Lord Lister

the 22nd of

April. The School owes its Alfred L. Jones, a West Africa origin at the annual dinner of the Royal merchant, who, Southern Hospital, on the 12th of November 1898, offered ?350 a year for the purpose of on

to Mr.

school for the study of tropical This offer was accepted by the hospital authorities on condition that the University

founding

a

diseases.

College

should be associated in the undertaking. was readily endorsed by the col-

The condition

lege,

logy

and Dr. Robert Boyce, Professor of Pathoin that institution, has been the principal

promoter

of the scheme.

A ward of the

Royal Hospital containing 12 beds has been apart for tropical cases, and a laboratory has

Southern set

been constructed close to it for the purpose of examining blood, urine and other materials. The ward has been named the Samuel Henry "

"

Thompson ward after the father of the donor Thompson Yates laboratory, which was opened a few months ago, also by Lord Lister. This laboratory will be available under Professor Boyce's superintendence for work connected of the

with the school.

A liberal response has been

for funds, and the work is sound financial basis. Two appointments have been made on the instructive staff, namely, Dr. Annettas Pathological made to

an

being started

appeal on

a

Major Ronald Ross, 1. M. S., Lord Lister Lecturer on tropical diseases. and ward at the the presided opened inaugural Demonstrator and

as

July

A WORD FOR

1899.]

NETLEY?MEDICAL DUSTURI IN

distinbanquet, which was attended by a very of guished assemblage of persons representative and various interests and institutions, medical imotherwise. In his speeches, he dwelt on the in disease portance of special study and education and colonies the to dependencies tropical

peculiar

of the British Empire, and on the value to patients and students alike of associating hospital treatment with the more minute investigations

of cases, and inquiries and

attention to questions, which the

greater

pathological working

of

a

It is at present proposed each lasting instructions, of that four courses and ?two months, will be delivered every year, for qualified that the School will be available men only. Liverpool is in close and constant communication with a large number of tropical diseases places, and numerous cases of tropical Southern Hoshave been treated in the medical school

implies.

Royal

pital

in

past years. special ward on

The

cases

which

occupied

the occasion of Lord Listers visit had contracted their maladies in China, South Carolina, Sierra

India, Brazil, Savannah, Leone, Forcados, Old Calabar, Benin, and Cape are Coast Castle. Patients of all nationalities and it is intended to train negresses for service in Africa, Central America arisen and the West Indies. The question has in this whether the course of instruction given Office School will be recognised by the Colonial

admitted, as

nurses

as

qualifying

for Colonial Service,

or

whether

have to candidates for such appointments will this subject, On attend the new London School. Mr. with Lord Lister had a personal interview

Chamberlain, who said that

depend

011

be and do.

forced

recognition would

to what the School should turn out be will men

Meantime, apparent!}7,

to resort to the London

School.

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