Show SAN sanitation SAVES LIVES OF CHILDREN united cited states aids great work in santiago Washington Should a fire bap through a in a san ti tango igo chile nod and snuff out tile lives of 78 little atle chil children drell ra millions illions would feel keenest sympathy and presidents and kings would send messages of con dolence dole less spectacular but far more clie cheering crIng Is the actual news that lives of children under one year old have been saved in n six months period in that one city atty and the united states had bad an important part in tills this magic boon of modern n medicine the circumstances emerge into the news because of the announcement of the tho sanitary code regulations and the decision buthe of alio united states public health service to permit dr J D long of its staff to remain in aa ago 0 Rs as adviser to the chilean ministry of hygiene repaying medicinal favors it seems scorns only a bit of poetic jus tice that the united states should minister to the ali e land whose deserts mako make the worlds gardens grow bind tb the sores and wounds of mankind and alleviate the pain of intense suffering 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 geographic society medicine lias has wrought powerful chang cli anges es in the geography of tile world the bulletin continues quinine for exa example aple nab li ns been mans chief ally in conquering the tropics and recent applications of in medical edical science have been estimated to tb have saved more lives among the allied nations since tile the world war than were lost in that alint titanic struggle now chile by the creation of its national health service with the assistance si of the expert from our country lias has embarked upon a program which she belleve believe nt n t a conservative estimate will save lier her nearly lives a year such a program through gli the length of her 2700 miles from froin the nitrate beds of tarapaca Tara paca to tile the forests of del fuego and her rich ilch intermediate ter mediate belts of copper iron faulta and the only sizable coal deposits in south america will have an important bearing upon her future geobra lillund lil iund upon the world supply of the raw materials and resources she possesses Ees ses ar an off official lelal resume of the work performed by tile the national health service since bince its inception last year just re calved at the headquarters of the national geographic fg clety tells how a fly elimination campaign through refuse removal and certain other sanitary provisions resulted in cutting down the infant mortality rate during UK the last six months of 1025 by per cent over the deaths of 1923 1023 and showed allowed a falling failing of per celli cent in tile the number of deaths in 1025 over those of 1024 1924 what chile has done the elongated republic with its on one fourth area of islands island has been divided into ton ten sanitary zones a corps of health officers lins has been created quarantine regulations have been put into effect physicians licensed lice itce ce bcd and compelled to report communicable muni mun cable leable diseases sewage disposal plants installed in small communities municipal sanitary codes code drafted and physic al examinations m inactions of f school children are being gradually provided infant mortality in chile has been approximately olic ohe thard tho the total mor of those babies that die under onal year yi ago about 00 per cent die under one month old therefore tile report states a great saving of life perhaps from 80 to 00 per tent cent of these deaths will be presented tedi by proper hospital maternity proy provision ision I 1 for mothers tour r cities santiago los leones sa ban j antonio and talca henceforth ara are to have their water supplies Ies sterilized with chlorine certain cities which have had inadequate water for domestic purposes including valparaiso rai i 0 are being surveyed for an augmented nie nt ed supply in tb the water evater shortage ninny many towns cowna suffer buffer fr from ohi a condition which ii makes inkes for chiles northern chile Is the one arid region of the world which want avant more ral rain n it if the climate changed and heavy rains fell periodically the water would gradually dissolve the lie nitrate and vash away the ine count rys unique reservoir of wealth weal ali |