The Disinfected Mail Study Circle (DMSC)

Hello Friends

I thought to share an item I have:

CEYLON 1861 SG 6 pence Cover to Bombay, India with 2 punche holes by a disinfecting apparatus. Apperently there was a cholera epidemic in Bombay at the time. I collect Ceylon covers, and this is the only…

The D.M.S.C. was founded in London in 1973, with the blessing of the late Dr. K.F. Meyer, World Health Organization authority on plague, and editor of an incomplete pioneering work, Disinfected Mail, published in Kansas in 1962. It was Dr. Meyer’s wish that research into the topic should continue, which led to the publication by D.M.S.C. of authoritative articles and monographs on the practice of disinfection and quarantine in all parts of the world. Many countries, like Portugal, Spain, Egypt,…