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Member of the Investigating Laboratory 

 of the Department of Sanitation. He has 

 also served as assistant in the Museum of 

 Natural History of the Havana University, 

 as interne associate and medical interne 

 of the Mercedes Hospital, and as delegate 

 of the Cuban government to the Third 

 International Congress for the Protection 

 of Children, ion. In 191 7 he was named 

 Assistant Professor in the Medical Depart- 

 ment of Havana University. At the 

 present time he is attached as doctor to 

 the Calixto Garcia Hospital and is ob- 

 stetrician and pediatrician of the Mercedes 

 Hospital. He is the author of many 

 scientific articles and in collaboration with 

 Professor Eusebio Hernandez has pub- 

 lished a work entitled Homicultura, pre- 

 sented to the Third International Congress 

 mentioned above. Acting in association 

 with Dr. Hernandez he introduced into 

 Cuba the principles of infantile hygiene, 

 and took part recently in founding hygienic 

 departments for the protection of children, 

 such as milk analysis and the distribution 

 of modified milk for poor children. In 



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