Nottingham - Highfields - The University Prior to 1952

            The Postcard

A postcard published by R.A. (Postcards) Ltd. of London E.C.4. They state on the back of the card that the R.A. Series is the Seal of Artistic Excellence.

They also state that the image is a real photograph, and that it was printed in England.

The card was posted in Nottingham on Thursday the 31st. July 1952 to:

Mr. I.L. Fifield,
c/o Mrs. H.E. Fifield,
162, Cricket Road,
Cowley Road,
Oxford.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Hope you are keeping
OK and all at Cricket
Road, as it leaves me in
the pink.
Love Bill".

George Carmichael Low

So what else happened on the day that Bill posted the card?

Well, the 31st. July 1952 was not a good day for George Carmichael Low, because he died on that day. Low, who was born on the 14th. October 1872, was a Scottish parasitologist.

He was born in Monifieth, Scotland, the son of Samuel Miller Low, a manufacturer of flax machinery, and educated at the University of St Andrews. 

Having graduated with an MA from the University, he then studied for a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MD in 1897. For the next two years he was a resident house doctor at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

In November 1899 he moved to London to work at the new London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine under Patrick Manson. He was sent to Vienna to learn a new technique for sectioning mosquitos, and on his return was able to use the technique to prove that mosquitos pass on parasites from person to person during the act of biting.

In 1900 he spent three months in a malaria-ridden part of Italy, and by avoiding mosquitos demonstrated that they were responsible for the transmission of the disease. 

He spent 1901 in the West Indies, confirming Manson's discovery that filaria (a small worm) transmitted by mosquitos was the cause of elephantiasis. In 1903 he was head of a team sent to Uganda to investigate the cause of "sleeping sickness" which unfortunately failed to identify the true cause (Trypanasoma sp.) of the outbreak. 

On his return in 1903 he was appointed superintendent of the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital (ADH) where the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was located. He remained there for the rest of his working life, being appointed Senior Physician in 1919. During World War I he was made a Major in the Indian Medical Service, treating sick officers at the ADH.

In 1907 he formed, together with James Cantlie, the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which in 1920 was granted the Royal prefix to become the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He was the 12th. president of the Society from 1929 to 1933, and oversaw its move into Manson House in Portland Place where it remained until 2003.

He was a keen ornithologist, and served on the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
   

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