Sir Malcolm Watson and the Klang Experiment

Two different drafts of an article by Hilda M. Kidd describing Sir Malcolm Watson's work in Klang in the early 20th century; the later one is endorsed "Sir Malcolm Watson has seen and approved this article."

Each draft comprises 5 pages typescript.

c.1949

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These papers were acquired when the Library purchased a pamphlet, Fourth International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria: exercises commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery by Ronald Ross of the method of transmission of malaria: evening of May 14, 1948, departmental auditorium, Washington, Department of State (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949), now held in the Library's printed collections at shelfmark GC Pamphlets P1170.

In May 1948 the Fourth International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, held in Washington DC, marked the fact that it was 50 years since Ronald Ross had discovered the mosquito transmission of malaria. These papers were probably created for this anniversary celebration.

Hilda M. Kidd was one of the three honorary presidents of this congress.

Sir Malcolm Watson (1873-1955), malariologist, was born in Cathcart, Renfrewshire, Scotland, took his MD at Glasgow University, studied public health at University College London, and entered the Malayan medical service in 1900. Working around Klang he embarked on a programme of controlling malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carried it. In 1907 he left government service but continued to work on malaria control in Malaya, being knighted for his work in 1924. In 1927 he returned to the UK to join the Ross Institute of tropical Health at Ross's own request; he was the Director of the Institute from 1933 to his retirement in 1942. He died in 1955.