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In 1906, Leopold II set up the School for Tropical Diseases, mainly to treat people who had caught a disease in Congo. In Congo too, scientists carried out field work. Note by Dr J. Schwertz about the fight against malaria in Elisabethville (Lubumbashi), 1926.
NAB, Archives Hubert Droogmans, no. 216.
NAB, Archives Hubert Droogmans, no. 216.
