Abstract
ACCORDING to the April issue of the Boletin de la Medicina Sanitaria Panamericana, the provinces of Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fé, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Salta, Jujuy and Misiones form the area most seriously affected by trachoma in the Argentine. The school is the centre for the control of the disease in children ; specially trained doctors examine the children before school begins, and those found infective are given treatment in dispensaries and are not admitted to school until their eyes are normal. Meanwhile, the patients are visited by public health nurses, who instruct the family in treatment and prevention. Periodic visits to schools and dispensaries are made by medical inspectors of the National Department of Health, and teachers serve as intermediaries between the medical practitioner and the children. Intensive educational work is carried out by posters, leaflets and lectures, and preventive medicines are distributed. The result of this campaign during the last few years has been a reduction of the percentage of children infected with trachoma.
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Trachoma in the Argentine. Nature 150, 176 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150176a0
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