TY  - JOUR
T1  - RIo de janeiro
Y1  - 1919/12/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610490047024
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1783
EP  - 1783
VL  - 73
IS  - 23
N2  - Oct. 20, 1919.Federal Ministry of Public Health 
    President Pessoa recently communicated to the house his desire to create a federal ministry of public health. The will presented to congress advises the taking over by the new ministry of all departments dealing with health matters, public sanitation, water supply and sewerage. In this way the secretaries of the interior and of public works will be relieved of excessive work.Hospital for Mental Diseases 
    The secretary of the interior visited the asylum for mental and nervous diseases and found it overcrowded, there being 1,460 patients, although only 800 can be housed comfortably; he therefore resolved to found a colony for these unfortunates in one of the suburbs of Rio, and also to have an asylum built for criminal lunatics, both to have all modern improvements.Influenza Number of the Archivos Brasileiros de Medicina 
    A special number of the Archivos Brasileiros de
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610490047024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610490047024
ER  -