Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912
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Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912
Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912
Rubber -- Exhibitions; Rubber industry and trade -- Brazil
2. Existence around or close to the plain of dry lands, provided with
good and abundant water, which serve for agriculture and cattle raising
and of sufficient area for the founding of an agricultural community of
at least 100 families.
3. Facility for the establishment of rapid communication with a fluvial
port, or one that must serve them.
Art. 35. Each hospital shall have a capacity for 100 sick persons.
Art. 36. Each hospital shall possess the following installations:
(a) Five separate pavilions, each for 20 sick, each sick person having 5
cubic metres and an area of 12 square metres.
One of the pavilions should be installed with the necessary requisites
for the isolation of infectious diseases; for this purpose it should be
divided into rooms for isolation, independent and easily disinfected,
with the proper sanitary apparatus.
All the hospital buildings should have the windows protected by wire
screening whose openings should never exceed 1½ millimeter and the doors
provided with:
(b) A disinfectory provided with an apparatus to disinfect in boiling lye
and a stove for sterilization by the combined action of heat, vacuum and
formal. Annexed to the disinfectory shall be the laundry.
(c) A laboratory for the diagnostic clinics and microbiology.
(d) Surgical operating room.
(e) Clinic consulting room.
(f) Room for autopsies.
(g) Pharmacy.
(h) Sanitary installation, in which should terminate all the drainage
pipes of the hospital, destined for the bacteriological treatment of the
water used, which not until after this operation must be allowed to flow
into the natural river courses.
(i) Dependencies for the administration and quarters of the personnel.
Art. 37. In each hospital there shall be made in the respective
pharmaceutical laboratory a preliminary study of all the remedies used
by the people of that region to determine which are prejudicial and
which inoffensive. The respective Director shall show the people in
printed circulars, frequently and profusely distributed that their
use is improper. Those which are found efficacious and susceptible of
improvement, shall be sent for more complete studies in the chemical
laboratories and federal pharmacies, letting the people know the results
obtained.
Art. 38. When the installation of each hospital is complete, a contract
shall be made, by public bidding, or independent of it, as the Government
may think best, with some professional of recognized ability, the
direction and maintenance of the respective services, the contract
including the following obligations:
1. The reservation of one hour daily in the medical consultation room,
where the sick known to be without means may freely receive examination
and be furnished with the necessary medicines.
2. The maintenance of a bureau for vaccination against smallpox and
other contagious diseases by means considered efficacious, and to attend
gratuitously to all who may wish it.
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