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Portrait depicting Brigadier Neil Fairley, CBE, FRS, MD, DSc (Melb), FRCP (Lond), FRACP, DTM&H, Director of Medicine Land Headquarters South West Pacific Area, Chairman Combined Advisory Committee to General MacArthur on Tropical Medicine and Sanitation SWPA.
There were grave fears for the strength of Australians fighting in the malaria prone regions of the Pacific during the Second World War. By June 1943, it was estimated 25,000 Australians in Papua and New Guinea had contracted malaria. Supplies of quinine, used to treat malaria since the First World War, and the synthetic drug atebrin were inadequate to meet demand. Brigadier Fairley was instrumental in the establishment of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit was quickly established in Cairns, Queensland where a specialist team of researchers trialled synthetic anti-malarial drugs.
Portrait of Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley, CBE, FRS, MD, DSc (Melb), FRCP (Lond), FRACP, DTM&H, Director of Medicine, Land Headquarters South West Pacific Area, Australian Army Medical Service; Chairman,
AWM400 151 Part 23 - [Records of Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley] Combined Advisory Committee on Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation – Correspondence and Directives – Diseases – Malaria – G
AWM400 151 Part 43 - [Records of Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley] Combined Advisory Committee on Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation – Correspondence and Directives – Screening of hospitals
AWM400 151 Part 9 - [Records of Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley] Combined Advisory Committee on Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation – Correspondence and Directives – Intelligence – A.G.S Te
AWM400 151 Part 10 - [Records of Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley] Combined Advisory Committee on Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation – Correspondence and Directives – Intelligence – Localit
AWM400 151 Part 11 - [Records of Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley] Combined Advisory Committee on Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation – Correspondence and Directives – Intelligence – Localit