Show SAVES LIVES OF CHILDREN united states aids great work in santiago washington should a fire sweep rough a childrens hospital in san igo chile and snuff out the lives 0 9 little children millions would feel enest sympathy and presidents and would send messages of con alence less spectacular but far more coring Is the actual news that es of children under one year old iv e been in a six months in that one city and the united states had an am part in this magic boon of dern medicine hiie circumstances emerge into the vvs because of the announcement of e new sanitary code regulations and e decision of the united states pub health sen ice to permit dr T D eg of its staff to remain in 0 as technical adviser to the chilean of hygiene repaying medicinal favora it seems only a bit of poetic jus e that the united states should alster to the land whose deserts le the worlds gardens grow bind s sores and wounds of mankind and evlane the pain of intense suffering hospitals from new york to sanga re tor those are the effects of the rates the iodine and the cocaine it chile exports says a bulletin of rational geographic society medicine has wrought powerful ingco in the geography of the rid the bulletin continues aul ie for example has been man s atef ally in conquering the tropics id recent applications of medical ence have been estimated to have red more lives among the allied nans since the world war than were t in that titanic struggle now chile by the creation of its health sen ice with the as tance of the expert from our coun has embarked upon a program ach she believes at a conservative amate will save her nearly SO ss a year such a through the ath of her 2 miles from the nl te beds of tarapaca Tara paca to the forests tierra del fuego and her rich in mediate belts of copper iron fruits 1 the only sizable coal deposits in nth america will have an imbor t bearing upon her future geobra 7 and upon the world supply of the v materials and resources she pos ses lan official resume of the work per med by the national health service ce its inception last year just re ved at the headquarters of the na nal geographic society tells how fly elimination through use removal and certain other san ry provisions resulted in cutting the infant mortality rate dur the last six months of 1925 by 1 per cent over the deaths of 1923 1 showed a falling of per cent the number of deaths in 1925 over se of 1924 I 1 what chile has done the elongated republic with its i fourth area of islands has been aided into ten sanitary zones a ps of health officers has been ere d quarantine regulations have n put into effect physicians 11 isad and compelled to report corn diseases sewage disposal ants installed in communities sanitary codes drafted and examinations of school cull n are being gradually provided infant mortality in chile has leen one third the cotil mor ity of those babies that die under year of age about CO per cent die ler one month old therefore alie ort states a great saving of life haps from 80 to 00 per cent of SQ deaths will be prevented by per hospital matern ltv provision mothers four cities santiago los I 1 bones a antonio and talca henceforth i to have their water supplies ster ed with chlorine certain cities ach have had inadequate water for pestle purposes including dalpa so are being surveyed for an aug anted supply aln the water shortage many towns fer from a condition which makes chiles Isor thern caille abe one arid region of the world teh bosn t want more rain if the mate changed and heavy trams fell the water would grad y dissolve the nitrate and wash ay the count rys unique wealth |