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IN a recent paper (Bol. Of. San. Panamericana, 23, 299; 1944) Dr. Jules Thebaud, director-general of public health in Haiti, states that the public health department in his country employs 542 persons, exclusive of day labourers. Owing to lack of funds, Haiti has hitherto been unable to keep pace in public health works; but it has endeavoured to maintain close relations with the Pan-American Sanitary Office. The population of Haiti is estimated at 3,000,000; in 1942 there were 44,805 births, 12,416 deaths and 3,298 marriages. The principal causes of death in 1942 were contagious and parasitic diseases (25·9 per cent), digestive diseases (14·6 per cent), genito-urinary diseases (6·8 per cent) and respiratory diseases, except tuberculosis (6·1 per cent).
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Public Health in Haiti. Nature 154, 484 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154484c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154484c0