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THE January issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an article on this subject by the Director of Public Health, Dr. P. H. Ordónez Dias, who states that public health in Honduras is making notable progress since most of the people have become health conscious. Sanitary requirements, including health certificates for employees, have been enforced in public eating and drinking places and all others in which close contact with the public is required. A Biological Institute has recently been created for the preparation of serums and vaccines. The anti-venereal campaign has been intensified by the use of arsenical preparations. In spite of free distribution of anthelmintics, infestation by intestinal parasites is still prevalent. Only sporadic cases of malaria were observed. The milk station deals with a hundred children daily and distributes 163,332 bottles and 15,394 quarts of milk during the year, with the result that the child mortality in those attending the milk station was 68.2 as compared with 105.6 for the whole republic.
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Public Health in Honduras. Nature 152, 101 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152101a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152101a0