British Residency · Civic building
Sir Ronald Ross Building
also Begumpet Officers' Mess
British ResidencyCivic buildingState protected
The hospital building where Ronald Ross, working in the Secunderabad garrison in 1897, proved the mosquito transmission of malaria. Restored and marked with a plaque. Recorded on Mapping HYD as a british-residency civic site in Begumpet, with protection status marked state-protected.
- Sir Ronald Ross Building is a documented british-residency civic in Begumpet.
- Marks the shift from court city to administrative metropolis
- Still readable in today’s streetscape and public use
- Associated construction or major phase dated around 1895.
- Current mapped status: state-protected.
- Built
- 1895
- Access
- Restricted entry
- Area
- Begumpet
- Location
- 17.4469, 78.4665
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