From 1920 until 1939, London’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases sponsored by the Seamen’s Hospital Society was located at Endsleigh Gardens, Euston. Unfortunately, written records of that era were destroyed in air raids on Greenwich in 1940 and 1941. Oral reminiscences documented in this paper help remedy this loss.
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Op cit. See notes 1 and 2.
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CookGC. Origin of a medical specialty: the Seamen’s Hospital Society and Tropical Medicine, St Albans: Tropzam, 2012, pp. 92–112.
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CEH Lloyd. See: Cook GC. Disease in the Merchant Navy: a history of the Seamen’s Hospital Society, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007, pp. 500–500.
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DAC Price. Ibid.
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Philip Manson-Bahr. Who was who 1961–70, London: A&C Black, 1979, pp. 749–749.
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George Carmichael Low. Op cit. See note 1, pp.158–162; Cook GC. Caribbean diseases: Doctor George Low’s expedition in 1901–02, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2009, pp. 5–23.
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Neil Hamilton Fairley. Op cit. See note 1, pp.152–155. See also: Cook GC. Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE, FRCP, FRS: an outstanding twentieth century tropical physician. Journal of Medical Biography, 2014 (in press).
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Archibald McIndoe. Op cit. See note 1, p.207.
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Op cit. See note 5, Cook, pp.500–501.
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William Byam, MRCS, LRCP, was a Harley Street physician who specialised in tropical medicine. He was also a lecturer in tropical medicine at St George’s Hospital. He had qualified at St George’s in 1904 and subsequently became a Lt-Colonel RAMC. Byam was the author of several papers relevant to tropical medicine. See also: Anonymous. Medical Directory 1930: 48.
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CookGC. Fatal yellow fever contracted at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK, in 1930. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg1994; 88: 712–713.
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Arthur Leslie Gregg who had been superintendent of the hospital from 1920 to 1925. See note 1, p.147.
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FA Lyon. See note 5, Cook, pp.500, pp.503–504.
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Op cit. See note 1, p.75.
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Op cit. See note 2, p.267 and note 5, Cook, 535 pp.
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