The prevention of malaria in the Federated Malay States / by Malcolm Watson; with a preface by Ronald Ross.
- Watson, Sir, Malcolm, 1873-1955.
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The prevention of malaria in the Federated Malay States / by Malcolm Watson; with a preface by Ronald Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![PREFACE Towards the end of last year I asked Dr. Malcolm Watson to contribute an article to my book on the Prevention of Malaria regarding his work in the Federated Malay States. Unfortunately, the article which he sent to me, though interesting from beginning to end, was too long to be inserted with the contributions furnished by nineteen other workers in various parts of the world ; and I therefore determined to try to publish his ])aper as a separate book. We are greatly indebted to Sir Frank Swettenham, (i.C.M.G., the distinguished organiser of Federal Administration in the Protected Malay States, for the assistance which he gave us in this respect. Mr. H.J. Read,CM.G., of the Colonial Office,was kind enough to approach him on my behalf regarding the matter ; and the result was that the \arious Companies mentioned on a previous page generously provided the necessary funds. Not only Dr. Watson and myself owe our thanks to Sir Frank Swettenham and to these Companies for the help given to us, but I think that the Governments and peoples of many malarious countries will be not less grateful. The time is one of change and advancement in our ideas of colonial de\ elopment. We are passing away from the older period of incessant wars and of great military or civil dictatorships into one of more minute and scientific administration in which the question always held before us is: What can best be done for increasing the prosperity of the people ? Sanitation is almost the first word in the answer. Prosperity is impossible in the face of widespread disease, and perhaps the very first effort which must be made in new countries is to render them reasonably safe, not only from human enemies, but from those small or invisible ones which in the end are so much more injurious. As one example of this new theorem I can quote that of Panama, where the Americans began their great work by laborious sanitary preparations. Another example will be found in this book. The author describes the origin of the Federated Mala}- States and the great sanitary problem which remained when that Federation was completed. It is a picture of a great work and of a great difficulty beyond it. Political adjustments are not everything, and for additional successes the statesman must be followed by the man](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21356099_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
