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According to some boosters of Government health insurance, Chile provides a better system of medical care for its people than the U.S. This week an able Chilean, who should know, flies home from Manhattan after a visit to U.S. medical centers. Young, vivacious Dr. Eduardo Cruz Coke (rhymes with coke), author of Chile's national health law, told reporters how Chile watches after the health of its 5,000,000 citizens. Some hows...
...Compulsory vaccination* has wiped out smallpox in Chile. Diphtheria has likewise been practically eliminated. Insanity is not common. Greatest health problem in Chile is a high infant-mortality rate. According to Dr. Cruz Coke, the trouble is not the medical care in hospitals but the conditions in the home, because of low standards of living...
...present, Chile spends about 280,000,000 pesos a year on medical care. At least one-third of this total is spent in treating the early stages of tuberculosis, syphilis, diseases of the heart and circulatory system. By stressing prevention rather than treatment, Dr. Cruz Coke claims that the "health yield" of a given amount of money is increased five or six times. Said he: "The State must spend money not primarily to give a man who is ill more felicity, but to produce a healthy worker...
...last fortnight, following the example of the U.S., Mexican officials boarded twelve Axis ships in Vera Cruz and Tampico, took possession of them to forestall sabotage. On board the Orinoco they found navigation instruments missing, learned that six Nazi sailors had disappeared...
...Slonimsky; Columbia: 8 sides-$4.50). Proving that Brazil's Villa-Lobos is not the sole South American composer of well-made songs, dances, Parisian-sounding salon pieces. Others: Brazil's Fernandez and Mignone, Uruguay's Pedrell and Broqua, Argentina's Ficher, Chile's Santa Cruz, Peru's Sas, Colombia's Uribe-Holguin...