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IN a recent message to the National Legislative Assembly, General Jorge Ubico, the president of Guatemala, gives the following details concerning health conditions in that country during 1939. 324,031 treatments were given to 67,371 malaria patients, 85,407 persons were treated for intestinal parasites, 2,486 dysentery cases received 13,123 treatments, 4,073 onchocerciasis patients were treated, 64,640 treatments for venereal disease were administered and 250 women were given 7,725 examinations. There were mild epidemics of whooping cough, diphtheria, measles and typhoid fever. The country has seventeen departmental hospitals, which cared for 48,815 persons.
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Health Conditions in Guatemala. Nature 147, 24 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147024a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147024a0