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IN a recent paper (Bot. Ofic. San. Panamer., ' 962; 1940) Dr. Julio García Alvarez, the Venezuelan Minister of Health and Social Assistance, remarks that the advance in public health in his country in 1939 includes the establishment of milk stations in 11 towns, of maternity hospitals in 10, the founding of a venereal disease dispensary-school, the completion of the Simon Bolivar tuberculosis sanatorium, the establishment of 40 centres by the Yellow Fever Service, and improvements in the national leprosariums and in the system of registering leprosy patients. In the campaign against malaria, 3,500 kgm. of quinine were distributed among 934 towns, and 312,985 treatments were given-two and a half times the number for the previous year. In 1939 the Ministry maintained 37 health units, a health commission, six health bureaux, 64 rural health officers and two port health officers, and its staff included 293 physicians, 14 sanitary engineers, 49 dentists, 43 laboratory workers, 244 inspectors, 294 nurses, 5 veterinarians and 1,237 unclassified employees as compared with 93, 2, 3, 26, 22, 54, 3 and 565 respectively in 1936.
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Health Conditions in Venezuela. Nature 146, 836 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146836b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146836b0