Show sanitation SAVES LIVES OF CHILDREN CHILDR Er W united states aids great greal work in santiago washington should a fire sweer sweep through a childrens hospital in san tiago chile and snuff out the lives or ol little children millions would feel keenest sympathy and 1 I presidents find and kings would send messages of condolence I 1 do lonce less spectacular but far more cheering Is the actual news that lives of children under one year old have hare been saved in it a six months period in that one city and the united states had an important part in tills this magic nia gle boon of 0 modern medicine the circumstances emerge into the news dews because of the announcer announcement nent ot of the new sanitary code regulations and tile the decision de of tile the united states public health service to permit pr dr J D long of its staff to remain in santiago as technical adviser to the chilean ministry of hygiene repaying medicinal favors it seems odly oaly a bit of poetic justice that the united states should tm minister inIster to the land whose deserts make the worlds gardens grow bind the sores and wounds of mankind and alleviate the pain of intense suffering jn in hospitals from new york to singapore for those are the effects of the nitrates the iodine and the cocaine that chile exports says a bulletin of the national geographic society medicine has wrought powerful changes in the geography of the world tile the bulletin continues I 1 quinine for example has bon been mans chief ally tn in conquering the tropics and recent applications of medical science have been estimated to have saved more lives among the allied nations since ills lie world war than were lost in that titanic struggle now chile by the creation of its national health service with the assistance si stance of tile the expert from our court coun try lias has embarked upon a program which she believes at a conservative estimate will save her nearly dearly lives a year such a program through lie length of her 2700 miles from the nitrate beds of tarapaca Tara paca to the forests of tierra del fuego and her rich intermediate ter bolts belts of copper iron fruits and the only sizable coal deposits in south america will have an important hearing bearing upon her future geography and upon the world supply of the raw materials and resources she possesses an official resume of the work performed by tile the national health service since its inception last year just received at the headquarters of the national geographic Rop society lety tells liow how a ily fly elimination campaign through refuse removal and certain other sanitary provisions resulted I 1 an fn D cutting down the infant mortality rate during the last six months of 1925 by per cent ovir over the deaths of 1023 1923 and showed a falling of per cent in tile the number of deaths in 1913 1025 over those of 1021 what chile has done the elongated republic with its one fourth area of islands lias has been divided into ten sanitary zones a corps of health officers lias bas been created quarantine regulations have been put into effect physicians licensed end and compelled to report communicable muni cable dl diseases eases sewage disposal plant Ins installed in small communities I 1 municipal sanitary codas drafted and physical examinations of school children are being gradually ern dually brov provided ded infant moyl allty in chile has epen approximately one third the total mortality of those nibles that lie die under udder one year of age about GO CO per cent die under one month old therefore the report states a groat grat saving of life perhaps frow from 80 to 90 per cent of these deaths will be prevented by proper hospital maternity ma eternity provision for mothers inot liers four our cities sant santiago lago los leones san antonio and talea talca henceforth are to have their water supplies fter after with chlorine certain cities which have had inadequate water for domestic purposes valparaiso are gwng surveyed for an aus aug merited supply in ID tile the water shortage many towns suffer buffer frow rom a condition which makes tor for chiles prosperity ity northern clile Is tile the one arid region of 0 the world which want more rain if the climate changed and heavy rain rains fed foil periodically the water would gradually dissolve the nitrate and wah wa h away the count rys unique reher reservoir voir of wealth |