Abstract
IN a recent article (Bol. Of. San. Panamericana,21, 540 ; 1942) Dr. Constantino J. Carvallo, the Minister of Public Health, Labour and Social Welfare, gives a description of public health in Peru from December 1939 to July 1941. The chief health problems of this country are malaria, tuberculosis, children's diseases, venereal diseases and other contagious disorders. Health campaigns which have already begun include surveys, health examinations, vaccination, establishment of clinics and dispensaries, early treatment, rural hygiene, drainage of swamps and stamping out foci of infection, port and river sanitation and housing. A department of industrial hygiene was established in August 1940, while nutrition problems are handled by the National Nutrition Administration founded in February 1940.
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