Major F. W. Cragg

It is with the deepest regret that we learn of the tragic death of Major F. W. Cragg, i.m.s., from typhus fever at Lahore on the 23rd of April, 1924. Major Cragg's death adds another name to the long but brilliant list of scientific investigators who have lost their lives in the prosecution of medical enquiries for the benefit of humanity. He died as truly on active service as did any officer killed in the Great War. Francis William Cragg was born on the 19th of May, 1882, and was educated at Edinburgh University, where he took the M.D., and?in later life?the D.Sc. degrees. Entering the Indian Medical Service on the 1st ot September 1906, after spending the usual period in military duty, he was posted to the King Institute of Preventive Medicine at Guindy, and gave early promise of a brilliant