Presidential Address, Delivered at the Third Meeting of the General Malaria Committee Held at Madras on the 18th November 1912

ference, I am pleased to be able to report that during the past twelve months satisfactory progress has been made towards that unification of aim in our anti-malarial policy and the training of practical workers upon which I laid such stress in my speech at Bombay last November. This airu has been kept firmly in view throughout the operations of the year, and our present policy, which, without interfering in details, has for its goal practical anti-malarial work, is largely the outcome of the deliberations of your Central Scientific Committee and of the Scientific Advisory Board which has been constituted under the auspices of the Indian Research Fund. And here I wish to acknowledge our deep indebtedness to our Chairman, Sir Barcourt Butler, for all he has done to advance the cause of practical sanitation, and to express our warm appreciation of the cordial co-operation of Sir Ronald Ross who has honoured us by consenting to act as a Consulting Member of the Advisory Board. As regards increasing our staff of practical workers I may note that our organisation has been materially strengthened by the appointment of special malarial officers in Madras, Bengal, the United Provinces, the Central Provinces, the Punjab and Burma. We have also modified the system of malarial classes so a9 to make them more practical, at the same time altering the composition of the class and increasing its numbers. In 1910, 24 officers and subordinates were trained and