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GB 0809 Ross - Ross, Col Sir Ronald (1857-1932)
- 74 - Material on Sierra Leone mostly relating to a letter written by William Thomas Prout to the editor of the British Medical Journal on the extermination of mosquitoes in Sierra Leone and the controversy surrounding his claims including a meeting of the Malaria Committee of the Royal Society, correspondence with the Colonial Office and letters from Matthew Logan Taylor who was employed as a research worker in Sierra Leone by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Ref No	GB 0809 Ross/74/26
Level	Item
Title	Copy of a letter from Ross to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office
Date	9/7/1903
Description	He would like an interview with RL Antrobus at the Colonial Office but would prefer it to be deferred until ML Taylor's report has been published. He is still dissatisfied with the Royal Society's decision the work in Sierra Leone without allowing himself and ML Taylor to reply to WT Prout's criticisms, especially as Prout is unenthusiastic about mosquito control and that he feels that it is too late for the inquiry to assess work done a year previously. They never claimed that Freetown would be cleared of malaria entirely but aimed to show what could be done. He encloses a translation of a letter from the Secretary of the Suez Canal Company.
AccessStatus	Open
Language	English

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