Malaria in Europe: An Ecological Study

Abstract

This book is based on the Heath Clark lectures given at the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1934. It is the outgrowth of the work of the Malaria Experiment Station at Rome, now the Laboratory of Malaria Studies under the direction of Professor Missiroli of the new Italian Institute of Public Health. The author is assistant director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, which founded the Malaria Station in Rome in 1925 and carried on investigations on malaria in the Roman Campagna and at other centers in Greece, Bulgaria and Spain. Cooperation with other malariologists, especially Professor Martini at Hamburg and Professor Swellengrebel at Amsterdam, was utilized in the solution of problems of malaria and anophelism in the countries of northern Europe where anophelism both with and without malaria presented perplexing local and seasonal problems. As the title indicates, the book is an ecologic study involving