Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flattering, creeping fashion, Europe was edging back towards something like economic health...
Except for a fine old stucco church on the weed-grown plaza, the sleepy rubber town of Cametá has only two noteworthy buildings: a nondescript, 10-ft.-square structure housing a brand-new well, and a little white municipal health center. Both are the work of a joint U.S.-Brazilian organization called Servico Especial de Saude Publica (Special Public Health Service...
...repeated in 89 other towns and villages in the green sweep of the Amazon Valley, and 81 more in the Rio Doce Valley far to the south. SESP has built and staffed three fine hospitals and Brazil's best nursing school. It has also built 42 health posts, 14,000 privies, and a dike at Belem that has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land from the sea. Over a two-year period in the Amazon, SESP doctors have made 297,000 medical examinations, 143,000 laboratory examinations, administered 156,000 treatments...
...outgrowth of the wartime U.S. interest in the Amazon's rubber and the Rio Doce's iron and mica, SESP is run jointly by the Brazilian Ministry of Health & Education and the U.S. State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. It is jointly headed by Brazil's curt, round-faced Dr. Marcolino Candau, 37, a Johns-Hopkins-trained carioca, and by IIAA's quietly competent Dr. Eugene Campbell, 41, also a Hopkins product...
...Brazil it is political suicide to oppose SESP. This week the finance committee of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies meets to debate the Health Ministry's 1949 budget, which includes 40 million cruzeiros ($2,000,000) for SESP. The SESP item is almost certain to be un touched. Too many Brazilians agree with Rio Physician Dr. Kenneth Waddell: "The only possible criticism of SESP is that there is not enough...