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IN a recent paper (Bol. Of. San. Panamericana, 22, 394 ; 1943), Dr. J. C. Mussio Fournier, formerly Minister of Public Health in Uruguay, gives the following account of public health in his country during the period 1938-42: (1) extension of preventive services ; (2) better distribution of public health appropriations ; (3) considerable increase of hospital beds and in hospital construction ; (4) intensification of the campaign against tuberculosis. The Health Division, Bureau of Health Examinations and departments of vital statistics, industrial hygiene and school prevention have been very active and the campaign against diphtheria has progressed. The appropriation for the Ministry of Health has increased 32 per cent. The present Government has spent 1,847,SOOpesosontuberculosistreatment, 590,000 for mental patients, 3,170,000 for the Clinical Hospital, 2,774,000 for improvements in Montevideo and 1,675,000 for rural construction. In 1937 Uruguay had only 1,055 beds for tuberculosis, a number far below present needs, as there are about 2,400 deaths annually from this cause in that country. To-day, however, Uruguay leads all Latin-American countries in the number of beds devoted to that disease.
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Public Health in Uruguay. Nature 152, 352 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152352c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152352c0