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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
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'The Basic Six Food Groups' poster produced by the Institute of Nutrition, Manila for the World Health Day celebrations, 1957.

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Report, 'The Padare Project'
'The Basic Six Food Groups' poster produced by the Institute of Nutrition, Manila for the World Health Day celebrations, 1957.
Annotated map showing the location of tsetse flies in Gambia, 1910.
Annotated map showing the location of tsetse flies in Gambia, 1910.
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