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02 - The Chariot newsletter
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01 - Research workers with Senate House shown through window
02 - Professor Cruickshank lectures students on a Public Health course
03 - Glass models of mosquitoes and their larvae are examined by students who come from India, the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and Sweden
04 - Mr FRN Pester, who is in charge of the breeding of aquatic creatures which are used for teaching and research at the Ross Institute is taking a sample from one of the various aquaria in his laboratory
05 - The subject of this photograph is a real bug or bugs. There is one, or more than one, specimen under each glass tube, for examination for insecticide research purposes
06 - Miss Wall, in charge of the insectory at the Ross Institute, is catching mosquitoes through a suction tube. She works in a temperature of 80 degrees F
07 - The mosquito larvae must be fed, and Miss Wall provides them regularly from the jar of crumbled biscuit, scientifically treated and measured
08 - Lice - volunteers have tins of these charming creatures strapped to their legs. The lice feed on the leg through one side of the tin fitted with gauze and air holes
09 - From the Gold Coast (now Ghana) : where tropical disease is a matter of major importance - Dr FR Roberts at work
10 - Mr Ross Hunt and his assistant, Miss Davey, test his newly-invented high pressure sprayer. It deposits determined amounts of insecticides on a variety of surfaces
11 - A delicate apparatus is used for testing insecticides. It is known as the Potter Tower and takes in compressed air, which is used to produce a find spray of the insecticies or poison being tested for lethal effect (Professor Busvine)
12 - Testing the victims which later are to be submitted to examination and tests. Miss Wall, with her assistant, Ronald Leadbetter, tends her charges
13 - From China: Dr Shan-Yar-Gin spends an hour in the library studying an important problem
14 - Staining a blood film for microscopic examination, Dr MBR Urs at work in the lab
15 - India: A student, one of many from her country, at work in the laboratory. She is Miss SA Chitale
16 - Dr E Petersen, a Dane, holds a pricked finge for Dr Syed Ghousuddin to make a blood slide
17 - Malaya, whose medical services have been disrupted during the war, represented by DR FI Loke
18 - USA: Dr Gertrude Long (left) estimates a blood content with a Canadian colleague, Dr Botham
19 - Canada: Dr JT Erb, about to make a blood film, cleans a microscopic slide with great care
20 - Navy leave enables Dr IT The to take a course. He is engaged on another blood-spilling operation
21 - Dr IT The looking down a microscope
22 - Student sucking her own blood for an experiment
23 - Students working in laboratory, Miss SA Chitale from India on left
24 - Students working in laboratory, Dr E Petersen, from Denmark, on right
25 - Students working in laboratory, Dr FR Roberts, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in foreground
26 - Miss Wall in the insectory
27 - Miss Wall catching mosquitoes in the insectory
28 - A staff member in a laboratory
29 - Students in the lecture theatre
30 - Students in the lecture theatre
31 - Students in the library
32 - Student studying in the library, taken from the balcony
33 - Notice board showing location of School's departments
34 - Letter to Dr Mackintosh
35 - Letter from Dorothe Murray, Feature Editor, Keystone Press Agency to Dr Mackintosh
36 - Article entitled: British Scientists' Lead, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in Sport & Country
05 - The Bloomsbury consortium, University of London
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AIDS Government Information leaflet for tattooists from the Don
AIDS Government Information leaflet for tattooists from the Don't Die of Ignorance campaign (1987)
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Diary page 107: the discovery of mosquito transmission of malaria
Diary page 107: the discovery of mosquito transmission of malaria
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Map of villages
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