The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine opened in 1930, funded by the Federal Government and controlled jointly by the Commonwealth and the University of Sydney. The School was established in Sydney 'for the purpose of convenience and designed to serve Australia and its dependencies in the Pacific.' In the first decade, the School taught preventative and social medicine and tropical medicine but also responded to the educative needs of those in military service in the tropics providing special courses in bacteriology, entomology, parasitology, tropical health and occupational medicine and hygiene. It's first director was Professor Harvey Sutton (1930-1947). Booklet produced on the occasion of the opening of the University of Sydney School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine ; loosely inserted: "Order of proceeding". At head of title page: "Commonwealth Department of Health and the University of Sydney."

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