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ling malaria were very varied. The recognition of these facts led to an
Imperial Malaria Conference being held in 1909, and at this and subsequent
meetings the foundations of an organisation for the study and prevention
of malaria in India were laid. With the formation of a Central Malaria
Committee to suggest the lines on which further investigation was most
urgently required and with the appointment of a Malaria Committee and
a specially trained malaria research officer in almost every province in
India, malaria research received a great impetus all over the country. A
Central Malaria Bureau was constituted at the same time from which
advice on all aspects of malaria could be obtained. A malaria journal
known as Paludism was also published. As the result of the investigations
of such special malaria officers as Adie, Bentley, Christophers, Fry, Gill,
Graham, Hodgson, Horne, Ross, Perry and others the real nature of the
malaria problem in India began to be realised for the first time.
U n f o r t u - n a t e l y t h i s p h a s e o f i n t e n s e a c t i v i t y i n m a l a r i a i n v e s t i g a t i o n i n I n d i a w a s
interrupted by the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.
6. The cessation of hostilities saw a revival of interest in malaria work
in India which, at first, was chiefly restricted to the activities of the
Central Malaria Bureau where attention was directed mainly to the inves
-tigation of certain basic problems. Within a few years, however, a number
of special enquiries was sponsored by the Indian Research Fund Association
among which may be mentioned the "Culicidae Enquiry" under Barraud,.
the "Anopheline Larval Enquiry" under Puri and the "Qunine and Malaria
Enquiry" under Sinton. The latter was later associated with the Malaria
Treatment Centre at Kasauli where for many years important researches
were conducted on the therapeutic efficacy of quinine and other drugs, par-
ticularly in regard to the prevention of relapses.
7. Realisation of the need for an efficient central malaria organisation
in India resulted in the inauguration, in 1926, of a central organisation (now
known as the Malaria Institute of India) under the Indian Research Fund
Association. The major functions of this organisation have been to act as
a bureau for information and advice on malaria, to conduct researches into
all branches of malariology, to co-ordinate and prepare for publication the
results of these researches in a form suitable for their practical application
by executive health workers, to conduct advanced courses of instruction in
malariology for medical post-graduates, to maintain an up-to-date reference
library on all aspects of malariology, to maintain representative mosquito
collections both from India and abroad, and to undertake the investigation
of special malaria problems such as have been carried out in Bombay,
Calcutta, Delhi, Andaman Islands, Quetta, Sind and other parts of India.
The wide field of investigation which has been covered by the workers of
the Malaria Survey of India is indicated by the numerous and diverse pub
- l i c a t i o n s w h i c h h a v e e m a n a t e d f r o m i t a n d w h i c h h a v e a p p e a r e d c h i e f l y i n
the "Records of the Malaria Survey of India", a journal devoted to
m a l a - r i a w h i c h i s e d i t e d b y t h e D i r e c t o r o f t h e M a l a r i a I n s t i t u t e o f I n d i a . T h e
work of the Survey during the past 10 years is closely associated with the
names of Sinton, Covell, Mulligan, Barraud, Puri, Macdonald, Bruce-
Mayne, Hicks, Baily, Majid, Kehar and others. A notable change in the