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THE September issue of the Boletin de la Oflcina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an article by Dr. Joao de Barros Barreto, director-general of the National Department of Health, Bio de Janeiro, who states that this department has the following sections: administrative service ; divisions of public health and hospital organization ; Oswaldo Cruz institute for the study of prevalent diseases and the manufacture of sera, vaccines and chaulmoogra esters ; national services for leprosy, tuberculosis, yellow fever, malaria, plague, mental diseases, control of medicine, port sanitation, water and sewerage, and vital statistics, and since September 23, 1942, the national service for cancer. Courses in public health are given by the National Health Department and include microbiology, immunology and parasitology, vital statistics, physiology, urban and rural sanitation, epidemiology and prophylaxis, industrial, child and mental hygiene, nutrition and public health organization and administration. A number of scholarships are granted to medical men through the Panamerican Sanitary Office.
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Public Health in Brazil. Nature 150, 631 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150631c0
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