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AN article in the November issue of the Boletin de la Oflcina Sanitaria Panamericana states that a very high place must be given to the Panamerican Sanitary Congress, which was held in Rio de Janeiro during September 7-18, 1942. Every Republic of South America was represented, and all, with one exception, by specialists including directors and professors of hygiene and authorities on tropical medicine, venereal disease, malaria, tuberculosis, bacteriology, radiology, forensic medicine, dietetics, aerial quarantine, dermatology and public health administration in general. The United States delegation consisted of six members, that of Paraguay eight and that of Chile ten, while that of Brazil was naturally larger. The Dominion of Canada was represented for the first time. The problems discussed consisted of the role of public health in the defence of the hemispheres, followed by more or less closely connected subjects such as malaria, typhus, nutrition, plague, influenza, tuberculosis, quarantine, yellow fever, trypanosomiasis, dysentery, cancer, heart disease and sanitary engineering. Caracas, Venezuela, was selected as the site for the next Congress, which is to be held in 1946.
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Panamerican Sanitary Congress. Nature 151, 303 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151303a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151303a0