{"id":6397,"date":"2019-07-31T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2019-07-31T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:46:38","slug":"the-school-in-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2019\/07\/31\/the-school-in-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"The School in 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"

During July the Archives Service has been celebrating the 90th<\/sup> anniversary of the Keppel Street building with a display on the history of the building, and regular tweets and blog posts. For our final blog post, we thought that we\u2019d concentrate on the staff and students who were at the School in 1929.<\/p>\n

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Sir Andrew Balfour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Director of the School in 1929 was Sir Andrew Balfour, he was a physician who became interested in tropical medicine through his friendship with Sir Patrick Manson and he studied at the School in 1902. He was then appointed Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratory at Khartoum and Medical Officer of Health to that city. In 1913, he returned to England and founded and directed the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research and organised what was to become the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science. He undertook a number of roles during World War One and worked in Mesopotamia, East Africa and Egypt. He was appointed Director of the School in 1923 and became the first Director of the new London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine when it received its Royal Charter in 1924. He was knighted in 1930 but unfortunately died on 1 January 1931.<\/p>\n

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In 1929, the divisions and departments of the School and key staff were as follows:<\/p>\n