Letter from John Prescott Hewett, Secretary, Home Department India to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras Hewlett says that the Governor General is considering a scheme for establishing a central institute of public health and planning and that Ross, on special duty to study malaria, would come under it. He adds that there is no objection to his being put on special duty to investigate malaria if the Government of Madras will provide the money. 19/3/1897