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THE outstanding developments in Venezuelan public health since the establishment of the autonomous Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare in February 1936 include the building up of a well–trained full–time staff, a tuberculosis control division with child and adult dispensaries in the capital and seventeen other cities, a school hygiene X–ray division, a national institute of puericulture, a malaria control division, a yellow fever preventive service, division of sanitary engineering and ankylostomiasis, and cancer and leprosy institutes. Among the more recent developments have been the creation of a Social Service Division in 1938, the opening of its school in 1940 and the increase in the number of beds in hospitals.
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Public Health in Venezuela. Nature 148, 139 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148139a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148139a0