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region of Russia, he organised feeding centres for distribution of supplies donated to the fund. He introduced measures for the control of infectious diseases, particularly typhus and malaria, and he introduced the practice of combining relief with the reconstruction of health services. Mackenzie
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Secretary of an International Commission to advise the Greek government to plan Hellenic health services. Later he also advised the government of Bulgaria on the control of endemic syphilis and the Czech and Romanian governments on the establishment of health
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Britain to the post of principal medical officer for London, driving across France with his family from Geneva to London, just escaping being caught by the advancing Nazi occupation forces. In 1943 he was appointed British delegate to
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Jamaican and Trinidad governments on control of a
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diseases in the Jungle, and tuberculosis together with other diseases on the Andean plateau.
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